Experienced Disability Stigma Scale Items from Kenyan Farmers

710 individuals with disabilities in Western Kenya provided responses for a six-item psychometric scale measuring interpersonal stigma. The dataset contains the validated scale items used to assess experienced stigma, created by Anita Jeyam and published in March 2026. It is a small, focused dataset of 9.5 KB stored in an XLS file.

Use Cases

• Validate the unidimensional factor structure of the six-item experienced stigma scale using confirmatory factor analysis.
• Assess internal consistency of the stigma scale items using McDonald's omega coefficient.
• Compare stigma experiences captured by the six interpersonal items against community attitudes from the separate enacted stigma dataset.
• Analyze psychometric properties of adapted HIV stigma tools for disability-related applications.

Strengths

• Scale demonstrated good internal consistency with a McDonald's omega coefficient of 0.82.
• Construct validity was confirmed via confirmatory factor analysis on a sample of 710 individuals.

Limitations

• Dataset is very small at 9.5 KB, containing only the scale items without raw response data.
• Sample is geographically limited to smallholder farmers in Western Kenya, limiting generalizability.
• Specific column names and row counts for individual responses are not provided.

Provenance

Source

figshare, authored by Anita Jeyam.

Collection Method

Survey data from smallholder farmers in Western Kenya, analyzed via exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

Western Kenya