Condom Use Barriers Scale for Adolescents (Escribano et al., 2016)
- Populations: Spanish adolescent population
- Age ranges: 13-18
- Languages: Spanish
- Countries: Spain
Items
Items presented in reported order
- Asking somebody to use condoms presumes distrust
- I would not know how to suggest to my partner to use condoms
- Suggesting using condoms generates doubts in the other about my state of health
- My sexual partner does not want to use them
- Putting them on my partner or myself would be embarrassing
- I am worried that somebody in my house would find them
- Buying them is embarrassing
- I would not know how to put one on correctly
- They can break
- They are not completely safe
- They are expensive
- They reduce the pleasure
- They are not very romantic
- Using them makes me feel uncomfortable
- They spoil the fun
Scoring
Not provided
Citations
Escribano, S., Espada, J. P., Morales, A., & Orgilés, M. (2017). Psychometric properties of the Condom Use Barriers Scale for adolescents. The Spanish Journal of Psychology, 20. e73. Doi:10.1017/sjp.2017.64
Team comments
Items reportedÂ
Scoring breakdown
Measure development
- Significant design input from young people
- Cognitive interviews with young people
- Expert input
Validity
- Green: Face validity
- Unknown: Convergent validity
- Green: Construct validity
Reliability
- Green: Internal consistency
- Unknown: Test-retest
Ease of use
- Unknown: Readability
Definitions
Face validity: How well a measure appears to represent the construct it is supposed to be measuring.
Convergent validity: How well a measure correlates with other hypothetically-related measures.
Construct validity: The extent to which a measure reflects the construct it was designed to evaluate.
Internal consistency: The extent to which items in a scale capture aspects of the same construct.
Test-retest: The degree to which measurement scores are consistent over a short period of time (usually 2 weeks).
Readability: The ease with which a reader can understand the questionnaire items.
Key
- Green: Meets validation criteria
- Red: Does not meet validation criteria
- Unknown: Evidence not available
