Perceived Hassle with Birth Control scale (Benson & Faas, 2014)

• Populations: Adolescents
• Age ranges: 12-18
• Languages: English
• Countries: United States

Items

• In general, birth control is too much of a hassle to use.
• In general, birth control is too expensive to buy.
• It takes too much planning ahead of time to have birth control on hand when you’re going to have sex.
• It {is/would be} too hard to get a {girl/boy} to use birth control with you.
• For you, using birth control {interferes/would interfere} with sexual enjoyment.
• Using birth control is morally wrong.

Responses

Items used a 5 point Likert-type scale, 1 = strongly disagree, 5 = strongly agree

Scoring

Not Reported

Citations

Benson, M. J., & Faas, C., (2014). Assessing adolescent contexts: Measures of families, peers, schools, and neighborhoods. International Journal of Child and Adolescent Health, 7(1), 53-69.

Team comments

This measure was developed as part of the Battery of Adolescent Measures, 4 of which are reported in the Good Measure project:

Parent Disapproval of Sex scale;
Perceived Benefits of Sex scale;
Perceived Consequences of Sex scale;
Perceived Hassle with Birth Control scale;

All Measures were developed alongside each other by Benson and Faas (2014)