Contraceptive Use Stigma (Makenzius et al., 2019)

• Populations: Kenyan Adolescents
• Age ranges: 13-21
• Languages: English
• Countries: Kenya

Items

• A girl who uses a contraceptive method is promiscuous (sexually immoral, likes to have many sexual relationships).
• A girl who use a contraceptive method will encourage other girls to have a promiscuous lifestyle.
• A girl cannot decide for herself to use a contraceptive method.
• A married woman is more deserving of a contraceptive method than an unmarried woman. 
• A girl who uses contraceptives will have problems when she decides to get pregnant.
• A girl who carries condoms is likely to have many sexual partners.
• A girl should not insist on using a condom; it is the man to decide whether to use a condom.

Responses:

“A seven-item CUS scale was developed—it followed a standard procedure for Likert scale development, per DeVellis [34] (five-point Liker scale: 1 = strongly disagree, 2 = disagree, 3 = unsure, 4 = agree and 5 = strongly agree).” (Makenzius et al., 2019)

Scoring

Not reported

Citations

Makenzius, M., McKinney, G., Oguttu, M., & Romild, U. (2019). Stigma related to contraceptive use and abortion in Kenya: Scale development and validation. Reproductive Health, 16(1), 136. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12978-019-0799-1

Team comments

Scale developed alongside Adolescents’ Stigmatizing Attitudes, Beliefs and Actions (ASABA) scale (Makenzius et al., 2019)