HIV/STD Risk Screening Index for Adolescents (Jarama et al., 2011)

• Populations: American adolescents at heightened risk for contracting HIV/STDs
• Age ranges: 12-19 years
• Languages: English
• Countries: United States

Items

Subscales:

• Initiation of sex
• Risky sexual behavior
• Substance use and sex
• Condom use

All items:

• Have you ever had sexual intercourse?
• Are you waiting to have sex until you are older?
• Have you ever had any kind of sexual contact with another person?
• Did you have sexual intercourse before your 15th birthday?
• Have you ever been forced or pressured into having sex when you did not want to?
• Have you ever been high on drugs or alcohol when you had sex with someone?
• Have you had sex with two or more people in hte past 3 months?
• Have you ever had anal intercourse (sex in your butt)?
• Have you ever had sex to get money, food, drugs, or a place to stay?
• Do you find it difficult to use condoms every time you have sex?
• Have you ever been sexually involved with someone who is more than 5 years older than you?
• Hafve you ever had sex with someone who has sex with both males and females?
• Have any of your closest friends started having sex?
• Have you been or gotten someone pregnant?
• Have you ever thought you or your partner might be pregnant?
• Have you been drunk in the past two weeks?
• During the last two weeks, have you used any drugs other than alcohol to get high?
• Have you ever had sexual intercourse without using a condom?

Response options not reported

Scoring

Responses were categorized into ‘‘risky’’ and ‘‘not risky’’ in terms of becoming infected with HIV=STDs and summed to obtain a total score

Citations

S. LisbethJaramaPhD, Natalie A.StultzMS, Kathleen M.ParilloMA, FrederickR.SnyderPhD (ABD) & Paul A.YoungMBA, MPH (2011) Development of an HIV/STD Screening Index to Measure HIV/STD Risk in Adolescents, Journal of HIV/AIDS & Social Services, 10:3, 230-247, DOI: 10.1080/15381501.2011.596766