Introduction: In many health conditions, stigma is receiving increasing attention. Public stigmatization toward social illness can affect particularly the @entity1 and family memberships to help seeking behavior and treatment. This study, the aim of this study was to investigate the validity and reliability of the Turkish "Stigma of @entity378 Scale " which was developed to evaluate of perception of stigma with tuberkulosis @entity1 . @entity1 and Methods: This methodological study was conducted with 150 with @entity378 @entity1 who above 18 age and without known @entity717 . In the study, "Stigma of @entity378 Scale" was used as data collection tool. During the study, language equivalence, content validity, reliability and construct validity of the scale was performed. The data was assessed by using mean, median, standard deviation, Spearman Correlation, Cronbach Alpha coefficient and confirmatory factor analysis. Results: The mean age of study @entity1 was 45.6    16.1 (20 - 85). years. Spearman correlation coefficient of the scale for test-retest reliability was 0.853 and the Cronbach Alpha coefficient was 0.95. According to fit indexes of confirmatory factor analysis [x2/SD= 481.38/230= 2.09; RMSEA= 0.087; GFI= 0.776; CFI= 0.776; NNFI= 0.875] it was found that one factors were appropriate for the scale. Conclusion: The adoption of the translated "Stigma of @entity378 Scale"in @entity233 is found reliable and valid to evaluate of perception of stigma with tuberkulosis @entity1 .

[Stigma of XXXX scale: validity and reliability].

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['participants', 'Patients', 'patients', 'patient', 'people'] @entity717 :: ('MESH:D009069', 'Disease') :: ['psychological and mental disability'] @entity378 :: ('MESH:D014376', 'Disease') :: ['Tuberculosis', 'tuberculosis disease'] @entity233 :: ('9103', 'Species') :: ['Turkey']
@entity378 :: (MESH:D014376,Disease) :: ['tuberculosis']
