@article{a4b7a3803b044feab3a07d5f46a39905,
title = "Assessment of the Opening Minds Scale for use with nursing students",
abstract = "Purpose: Evaluate the validity of the Opening Minds Scale (OMS) for nursing students via Rasch models and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Design and methods: Undergraduate nursing student responses to OMS (n = 423). Validity was evaluated via CFA and Rasch analysis. Findings: CFA results were strongest for a three-factor 13-item version of OMS. Rasch modeling supported sound properties for two of three scales. Internal reliabilities ranged between 0.6 and 0.7. Practice implications: OMS has potential as a valid measure for stigma research and antistigma program evaluation. Rasch analysis suggest it is inappropriate to use a total OMS score for nursing student populations.",
keywords = "mental health, mental health nursing, nursing students, Opening Minds Scale, stigma",
author = "Brenda Happell and Chris Platania-Phung and Brett Scholz and Julia Bocking and Aine Horgan and Fionnuala Manning and Rory Doody and Elisabeth Hals and Arild Granerud and {Jan van der Vaart}, Kornelis and Jerry Allon and Mari Lahti and Jarmo Pulli and Annaliina Vatula and Heikki Ellil{\"a} and Martha Griffin and Siobhan Russell and Liam MacGabhann and Einar Bjornsson and Pall Biering",
note = "Funding Information: The authors acknowledge and thank Erasmus+ for the funding, which made this innovative project possible, the students who generously gave of their time to complete the questionnaires, Ms Nathasha Munasinge for her assistance with coordinating data collection from participating countries and for data entry for the Australian component, and staff who assisted with the distribution and collection of questionnaires and with data entry. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.",
year = "2019",
month = oct,
doi = "10.1111/ppc.12393",
language = "English",
volume = "55",
pages = "661--666",
journal = "Perspectives in Psychiatric Care",
issn = "0031-5990",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell",
number = "4",
}