Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study (Young et al., 2016)

• Populations: Adolescents
• Age ranges: 15-17
• Languages: English
• Countries: France; Hungary; Ireland; Portugal; Romania

Items

Please note that, as these questions were developed with a multinational sample, some questions were localized by nation.  The localization language was included in the bracketed sections of the items below.

• Have you ever had sexual intercourse (sometimes called “making love,” “having sex,” or “going all the way” or other [appropriate colloquial terms]?
• How old were whe you had sexual intercourse for the first time?
• The last time you had sexual intercourse, did you or your partner use a condom?
• The last time you had sexual intercourse, did you or your partner use birth control pills?
• The last time you had sexual intercourse, did you or your partner use [National Option]
• The last time you had sexual intercourse, did you or your partner use any other methods?

Responses:

Depending on item, responses were: yes/no; a range of ages from “11 years old or younger” to “16 years old”; or “yes”, “no”, “don’t know”

Scoring

No information provided

Citations

Young, H., Költő, A., Reis, M., Saewyc, E. M., Moreau, N., Burke, L., ... & Godeau, E. (2016). Sexual Health questions included in the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) Study: an international methodological pilot investigation. BMC medical research methodology, 16, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-016-0270-8 

Team comments

Please note that the full range of languages utilized for piloting was not reported.