HIV and Other STIs Knowledge Scale (Espada et al., 2014)

• Populations: Colombian adolescent population
• Age ranges: 14-19 years
• Languages: Colombian Spanish, Spanish
• Countries: Colombia; Spain

Items

Subscales

• Fear of Negative Evaluation - Dating (10 items)
• Social Distress - Dating (7 items)
• Social Distress - Group (4 Items

Taken from (Espada  et al., 2013), presented in English and in reported order.  Authors note in presenting these items that items with factor loadings <.40 were excluded.

• If my partner would ask me to have unprotected sex I would refuse it.
• If my partner would want to have sex without a condom, I would try to convince her/him to use it
• If I were going to have sex and realize that I have no condoms, I would wait until I have them to maintain sexual intercourse.
• I would be willing to be tested for AIDS if I had had a risk behavior.
• I would recommend a friend to get tested for HIV if he/she had had sexual risk behaviors.
• I would be willing to say that I agree with the use of condoms in front of my group of friends.
• I would be willing to publicly defend the use of condoms.
• I would be willing to carry condoms for my use.
• I would be willing to use condoms in a sexual relationship.
• If a friend became infected with HIV, I would probably distance myself from him.
• I would be uncomfortable with someone with AIDS attending to my class.
• I would be willing to kiss on the cheek to an HIV positive person.

Item Responses:

Items have False, True, or I do not know, as response options. For statistic treatment, items are recoded into “Known or do not know”

Scoring

None reported

Citations

Abello-Luque, Daniella et al. “Colombian Adaptation of the HIV and Other Sexually Transmitted Infections Knowledge Scale (KSI) in an Adolescent Population.” Evaluation & the health professions vol. 44,2 (2021): 161-167. doi:10.1177/0163278720979621

Espada, J., Guille´n-Riquelme, A., Morales, A., Orgile´s, M., & Sierra, J. (2014). Validation of a knowledge scale on HIV and other sexually transmitted infections in the adolescent population. Primary Care, 46(10), 558–564. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aprim.2014.03.007 

Team comments

Discrepancy in SD of sample age: reported as 1.36 in abstract and 1.30 in results section (Abello-Luque, Daniella et al., 2021)