Contraceptive Intent Questionnaire (Raine-Bennett & Rocca, 2015)

Liklihood of contraceptive use, and identifies young women who may not adhere to contraceptive use; 15 Items , Age M = 18.7

Populations: Adolescent and young women
Age ranges: Range not provided; M = 18.7 SD = 2.4
Languages: English
Countries: United States

Items

How important is it for you to get further along in your life, like finish school, get a job, or make more money, before you have a child or your next child? (life)
Do you think the person you have sex with is against you using birth control? (pagainst)
How important is it for you to avoid getting pregnant now? (avoid)
How important is it for you to use birth control now? (now)
How happy would you feel if you got pregnant in the next year? (happy—reverse coded)
How sure are you that you will use birth control for the next year? (usebc)
Do you think it will be hard for you to use birth control correctly? (hard)
How sure are you that you could plan ahead to use birth control? (ahead)
How upset would you feel if you got pregnant in the next year? (upset)
How sure are you that you could resist having sex if your partner did not want you to use birth control? (resist)
Do you think birth control will do more harm than good for you? (harm)
Do you think you will get pregnant if you use birth control correctly? (correct)
How important is it for you to use birth control when you don’t have sex very often? (infreq)
How sure are you that you could stop yourself from having sex once you were highly aroused or turned on if you weren’t using birth control? (stop)
Do you think birth control will cause you to have bad side effects? (side)

Response options:

All items had four Likert-scale response categories; response options reflecting a higher level of contraceptive intent or predisposition to use a new method were coded higher.

Scoring

Example response scales: items marked *”...” * coded highest, and higher scores reflect higher level of contraceptive intent or predisposition to use a new method.

Not at all important, Somewhat Important, Important, *Very Important*

Definitely Yes, Probably Yes, Probably not, *Definitely Not*

In less than 1 year, in 1 to 2 years, Don’t know, *In more than 2 Years; Never*

Citations

Raine-Bennett, T. R., & Rocca, C. H. (2015). Development of a brief questionnaire to assess contraceptive intent. Patient Education and Counseling, 98(11), 1425–1430. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2015.05.016

Scoring breakdown

Measure development

Significant design input from young people
Cognitive interviews with young people
Expert input

Validity

Green: Face validity
Unknown: Convergent validity
Unknown: Construct validity

Reliability

Unknown: 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