Article: Development and cross-validation of an instrument to measure first-year pharmacy students' attitudes toward AIDS/HIV patients

Marie A. Chisholm1 and Jean-Francois Ricci

The purpose of this study was to develop and validate an instrument that measures first-year professional pharmacy students' attitudes toward AIDS/HIV patients. In April 1996, a 39-item instrument based on the Aids Attitude Scale and items generated from a focus group was administered to all first-year professional students at the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy (n=105). Students were asked to respond to each item by using a six-point Likert-type scale ranging from 1=strongly disagree to 6=strongly agree. One hundred and three surveys (99 percent response rate) were analyzed. Exploratory factor analysis yielded two factors, a nine-item ...

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