Opening Minds Stigma Scale for Health Care Providers (OMS-HC): Examination of psychometric properties and responsiveness

Table 3 Internal consistency: Cronbach’s alpha (α) for each version of the OMS-HC and subscales, stratified by HCP group, n = 1305

	n	20-item version	12-item version	15-item version	Attitude(6 items)	Disclosure/Help-seeking(4 items)	Social Distance(5 items)
Crude (everyone)	1305	0.79	0.74	0.79	0.68	0.67	0.68
MD	830	0.77	0.73	0.77	0.67	0.67	0.66
Practicing MD	648	0.78	0.73	0.78	0.67	0.69	0.68
Medical student	182	0.77	0.74	0.75	0.67	0.61	0.68
Nurses	102	0.80	0.74	0.80	0.69	0.66	0.77
Allied Health	214	0.82	0.74	0.81	0.65	0.70	0.69
Social worker	35	0.76	0.74	0.81	0.65	0.72	0.57

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