Contraceptive Concerns and Beliefs Scale (Rocca et al., 2024)

• Populations: Individuals using reproductive health care
• Age ranges: 15-33
• Languages: English
• Countries: United States

Items

• Using birth control is good for my health and wellbeing.
• I worry that birth control has dangerous side effects. (–, Side effects)
• I worry that using birth control is unnatural. (–, Health and Safety)
• I believe the hormones in birth control are safe. (+, Health and Safety) 
• Birth control affects my body in ways that I do not like. (–, Side effects)
• I worry that drug companies hide information about birth control from women(–, Skepticism/Trust)

(+): Item coded so that “agree”=0, “somewhat agree”=1, “neither”=2, “somewhat disagree”=3, and “disagree”=4.(–): Item coded so that “disagree”=0, “somewhat disagree”=1, “neither”=2, “somewhat agree”=3, and “agree”=4

(Rocca et al., 2024)

Scoring

“respondents indicated if they agreed, somewhat agreed, neither agreed nor disagreed, somewhat disagreed, or disagreed. Items were coded so that higher levels of concerns were higher on a 0–4 scale.” (Rocca et al., 2024)

Citations

Rocca, C. H., Muñoz, I., Rao, L., Levin, S., Tzvieli, O., & Harper, C. C. (2024). Measuring a critical component of contraceptive decision making: The contraceptive concerns and beliefs scale. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 28(5), 847-857. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-023-03856-5