Adolescent Risk Inventory (Lescano et al., 2006)

• Populations: Adolescents with psychiatric disorders
• Age ranges: 12-19 years
• Languages: English
• Countries: United States

Items

Subscales:

• HIV anxiety
• HIV prevention self-efficacy
• General distress
• Sex risk
• Abuse / self harm
• Acting out

Full scale not reported, some example items from the Sex Risk Scale are:

• How many times have you had sexual intercourse in the past year?
• How many different sex partners have you had in the past year?
• Have you ever been pregnant or been a father?

“Response options for all of the Attitude items and all but two of the Behavior items are ‘‘yes’’ (rated a 2) and ‘‘no’’ (rated a 1). Response items for questions starting “How many..” are “none” = 1, “one to five” = 2, “six or more” = 3” (Lescano et al., 2006)

Scoring

“Attitude items were asked in reference to attitudes at the time of completion of the measure with the exception of two items that ask about distress in the past month and one item related to intention to use condoms in the next 3 months. Scale scores (for all scales except the Sex Risk Scale), were determined by totaling the number of ‘‘yes’’ responses, with higher scores reflecting greater risk. The Sex Risk Scale score was determined by totaling the responses to the five ‘‘yes/no’’ questions plus the recoded responses to the two ordinal responses detailed above.”  (Lescano et al., 2006)

Citations

Lescano, C. M., Hadley, W. S., Beausoleil, N. I., Brown, L. K., D’eramo, D., & Zimskind, A. (2007). A Brief Screening Measure of Adolescent Risk Behavior. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 37(4), 325–336. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-006-0037-2