HIV Transmission Knowledge questionnaire ( Jakobsen & Rise, 1997)

Understanding of risk behaviours associated with HIV transmission in adolescents; 8 Items, Ages 13-15

Populations: Adolescents
Age ranges: 13-15
Languages: Dutch
Countries: Netherlands

Items

Item Stem:

“Can an HIV-positive person infect others by:”

a cough?
a. holding by the hand?
a. being at school?
swimming in a pool?
a. a kiss on the cheek?
sharing a cup?
b. using the same toilet?
b. if a mosquito bites both?
a. giving blood?
sharing an IV-drug needle?
having sexual intercourse?
b. having a child?

Items prefixed with a. were only included in the 1990 version of this survey, while items prefixed with b. were only included in the 1992 version of the survey.

Responses

Items had three possible responses: “yes,” “no,” and “do not know”

Scoring

Items receiving a “do not know” response were coded as incorrect responses.

Citations

Jakobsen, R., & Rise, J. (1997). Adolescents’ knowledge about HIV/AIDS: One dimensional or two dimensional? A confirmatory factor analysis. Journal of Health Psychology, 2(1), 57-65. https://doi.org/10.1177/135910539700200106

Scoring breakdown

Measure development

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

Validity

Unknown: Face validity
Unknown: Convergent validity
Green: 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