Table 1.
Mean values and confidence intervals of reliability analysis for Neuro-QoL-Stigma scale. Variables presented as mean ± standard deviation (SD) because of normal distribution. Cut-off values of Cronbach’s alpha are as follows: >0.78 (acceptable), >0.8 (good), and >0.9 (excellent). Internal consistency correlations (ICCs) are statistically significant at P ≤ 0.001.
| Item no. | Item | Mean ± SD | Cronbach’s α | ICC |
| 1 | Because of my illness, some people avoided me | 1.32 ± 0.84 | 0.945 | 0.70 |
| 2 | Because of my illness, I felt left out of things | 1.30 ± 0.84 | 0.944 | 0.82 |
| 3 | Because of my illness, people avoided looking at me | 1.26 ± 0.74 | 0.945 | 0.74 |
| 4 | I felt embarrassed about my illness | 1.39 ± 0.90 | 0.945 | 0.73 |
| 5 | Because of my illness, some people seemed uncomfortable with me | 1.50 ± 0.90 | 0.945 | 0.70 |
| 6 | I felt embarrassed because of my physical limitations | 1.32 ± 0.79 | 0.944 | 0.77 |
| 7 | Because of my illness, people were unkind to me | 1.11 ± 0.37 | 0.947 | 0.67 |
| 8 | Some people acted as though it was my fault I have this illness | 1.30 ± 0.67 | 0.948 | 0.39 |
| 9 | Because of my illness, I felt embarrassed in social situations | 1.38 ± 0.94 | 0.944 | 0.78 |
| 10 | Because of my illness, I felt emotionally distant from other people | 1.60 ± 1.05 | 0.943 | 0.81 |
| 11 | Because of my illness, people tended to ignore my good points | 1.30 ± 0.71 | 0.947 | 0.59 |
| 12 | Because of my illness, I was treated unfairly by others | 1.24 ± 0.68 | 0.947 | 0.54 |
| 13 | Because of my illness, I felt different from others | 1.63 ± 1.04 | 0.943 | 0.82 |
| 14 | Because of my illness, I worried about other people’s attitudes towards me | 1.49 ± 1.01 | 0.944 | 0.79 |
| 15 | Because of my illness, I worried that I was a burden to other | 1.92 ± 1.19 | 0.945 | 0.71 |
| 16 | Because of my illness, people made fun of me | 1.08 ± 0.29 | 0.949 | 0.34 |
| 17 | I was unhappy about how my illness affected my appearance | 1.81 ± 1.25 | 0.948 | 0.60 |
| 18 | Because of my illness, strangers tended to stare at me | 1.32 ± 0.77 | 0.946 | 0.65 |
| 19 | I lost friends by telling them that I have this illness | 1.13 ± 0.49 | 0.948 | 0.42 |
| 20 | Because of my illness, it was hard for me to stay neat and clean | 1.46 ± 0.96 | 0.946 | 0.62 |
| 21 | I felt embarrassed about my speech | 1.30 ± 0.80 | 0.946 | 0.62 |
| 22 | I avoided making new friends to avoid telling others about my illness | 1.33 ± 0.87 | 0.945 | 0.69 |
| 23 | I tended to blame myself for my problems | 1.48 ± 0.92 | 0.946 | 0.66 |
| 24 | People with my illness lost their jobs when their employers found out about it | 1.42 ± 0.89 | 0.950 | 0.33 |