Development and Initial Validation of Stigma Towards Healthcare Providers Working with COVID-19 Patients Scale (S19-HCPs)

Abdulqadir J Nashwan; Sadeq Al-Fayyadh; Hayder Al-Hadrawi; Mohammed Baqer Al-Jubouri; Sabah A Jaafar; Shaymaa M Hussein; Ayat J Nashwan; Mohammed A Alharahsheh; Nisha Kader; Majid Alabdulla

doi:10.2147/JMDH.S321498

Development and Initial Validation of Stigma Towards Healthcare Providers Working with COVID-19 Patients Scale (S19-HCPs)

J Multidiscip Healthc. 2021 Nov 10:14:3125-3134. doi: 10.2147/JMDH.S321498. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Nursing Education & Practice Development, Hazm Mebaireek General Hospital (HMGH), Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), Doha, Qatar.
² Faculty of Nursing, University of Calgary in Qatar (UCQ), Doha, Qatar.
³ College of Nursing, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq.
⁴ College of Nursing, University of Kufa, Kufa, Iraq.
⁵ College of Nursing, University of Muthanna, Baghdad, Iraq.
⁶ Department of Sociology and Social Work, Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan.
⁷ Mental Health Services (MHS), Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), Doha, Qatar.
⁸ College of Medicine, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar.

Abstract

Purpose: The S19-HCPs tool evaluates the stigma towards healthcare providers working with patients with COVID-19.

Materials and methods: The psychometric properties of the Arabic and English versions of the S19-HCPs were examined. A survey using the S19-HCPs scale was administered online. Two reliability analyses were used in this study to identify the extent to which S19-HCPs shows consistent results (internal consistency and test-retest reliability). The English version of the scale was piloted on 33 Jordanian and the Arabic version on 27 Iraqi participants.

Results: The internal consistency of the English and Arabic S19-HCPs was satisfactory (α = 0.79, 0.74, respectively). Two-week test-retest correlations were all statistically significant (ICC = 0.91, 0.89, respectively).

Conclusion: The S19-HCPs is psychometrically robust and can be used in research assessing the stigma towards healthcare providers working with patients with COVID-19 in English and Arabic-speaking countries.

Keywords: Arabic S19-HCPs; COVID-19; English S19-HCPs; S19-HCPs; coronavirus; stigma.