Six items in the PDD inquire about expectations of discrimination or devaluation in relation to a person’s prior treatment status (see Supplementary Material 11). This warranted sensitivity analysis of a latent PAS factor excluding these items owing to the use of prior treatment status as a proxy for labeling. When excluding the treatment-specific PDD items, the fit remained good (CFI = 0.970, TLI = 0.955, RMSEA = 0.018 [90% CI = 0.015–0.020]) and results were consistent with regard to the direction and statistical significance of the indirect effects and their between-group difference (not shown).
