Decisional Balance - Condom Use (Addy, 2010)
- Populations: children, adolescents, and young adults
- Age ranges: 12-20
- Languages: English
- Countries: United States
Items
- My partner would be upset
- My partner would think I play around
- My partner would think I don’t trust him or her
- It would be too much trouble
- It makes sex feel unnatural
- I would be safer from disease
- I would feel more responsible
- The risk of pregnancy would be lower
- Condoms are easily available
- It protects my partner as well as myself.
Responses:
“Decisional balance was measured with five pros and five cons items on a five-point scale ranging from “not important at all” to “very important”” (Addy, 2010)
Scoring
None reported
Citations
Addy, R. C. (2010). INVESTIGATING THE STRUCTURE AND FORM OF CONDOM DECISIONAL BALANCE IN AN ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL SAMPLE USING CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS. [Doctoral Dissertation, University of Texas], ProQuest Information & Learning
Scoring breakdown
Measure development
- Significant design input from young people
- Cognitive interviews with young people
- Expert input
Validity
- Unknown: Face validity
- Unknown: Convergent validity
- Red: 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
