Oral Contraceptive Perception Scale (Hanna, 1994)
- Populations: Adolescents, Young Adults
- Age ranges: 14-25
- Languages: English
- Countries: United States
Items
Subscales
- Relationship-Oriented Benefits, 5 Items
- Relationship-Oriented Barriers, 5 Items
- Adherence Barriers, 4 Items
- Pregnancy Prevention Benefits for Self, 4 Items
- Pregnancy Prevention Benefits for Others, 3 Items
- Benefits of Responsibility, 3 Items
Items Not reported, item descriptions taken from factor loading table (Hanna, 1997)
- Mother know I’m grown-up
- Father know I’m responsible
- Father know I’m grown-up
- Mother know I’m responsible
- Boyfriend know I’m grown-up
- Worry about hiding from mother
- Worry about hiding from father
- Mother would disapprove
- Father would disapprove
- Others think I’m a bad person
- Easy to forget to make appointment
- Hard to get appointment
- Easy to forget appointment
- Easy to forget to take pill everyday
- Prevent pregnancy:
- So able to go to college
- So stay in high school
- Until marriage
- So time to think about self
- Prevent Pregnancy:
- So not to hurt mother
- So not to hurt boyfriend
- So not to hurt father
- I’m responsible for taking pills
- I’m responsible for keeping appointments
- Boyfriend know I’m responsible
Responses
Items used a 5 point Likert-type scale, 1 = strongly disagree, 5 = strongly agree
Scoring
Total Score indicated positive regard for oral contraceptives.
Citations
- Hanna, K. M. (1994). Female adolescents’ perceptions of benefits of and barriers to using oral contraceptives. Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing, 17(1), 47. https://doi.org/10.3109/01460869409078288
- Hanna, K. M. (1997). An oral contraceptive perception scale for female adolescents. Western Journal of Nursing Research, 19(4), 519-529. https://doi.org/10.1177/019394599701900407
Scoring breakdown
Measure development
- Significant design input from young people
- Cognitive interviews with young people
- Expert input
Validity
- Green: Face validity
- Unknown: Convergent validity
- Green: Construct validity
Reliability
- Green: Internal consistency
- Unknown: Test-retest
Ease of use
- Green: 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
