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Table 1 Overview of the results of the factor analyses on the 15-item OMS-HC in international studies

From: Factor structure of The Opening Minds Stigma Scale for Health Care Providers and psychometric properties of its Hungarian version

Research group

Investigated population

Method

Results

Country

Structure

Model fit indices

Modgill et al., 2014 [19]

healthcare and social workers and medical students

n = 1305

PCA

- 3 dimensional structure

Canada

Destrebecq et al., 2018 [21]

healthcare students

n = 561

EFA

- 3 dimensional structure

- Item 20 has poor factor loading on the Attitude factor

Italy

Chang et al., 2017 [20]

nurse and medical students

n = 1002

ESEM

- 3 dimensional structure

- Item 1 was deleted

- Items 6, 7, 17 showed strong cross-loadings

- Items 7, 17 loaded on different factors

RMSEA = 0.069 CFI = 0.948

TLI = 0.909

Singapore

Sapag et al., 2019 [22]

primary healthcare workers

n = 803

SEM

- 3 dimensional structure

RMSEA = 0.052

CFI = 0.832

TLI = 0.798

Chile

  1. PCA Principal component analysis, EFA Exploratory Factor analysis, ESEM Exploratory structural equation modelling (integration of EFA, confirmatory factor analysis and SEM), SEM Structural equation modelling, RMSEA Root mean square error of approximation, CFI Comparative fit index, TLI Tucker-Lewis Index.