Risk Behaviors for HIV infection (smith et al., 1996)

Behaviours related to transmission HIV in Latinx American adolescents and young adults; 9 Items, Ages 14-20

Populations: Adolescents, Young adults
Age ranges: 14-20
Languages: English, Spanish
Countries: United States

Items

Item Stem: How sure are you that you could...

Talk about safe sex with a sexual partner?
Buy condoms in a drug store?
Refuse to have sex with someone you didn’t know very well
Use a condom correctly if your partner wanted to?
Refuse to shoot up drugs if your friends asked you to shoot up with them?
Convince a partner that he or she should use a condom?
Prevent a partner from having anal sex with you?
Ask a partner about his or her other sexual partners?
Refuse to use a needle that had already been used by a friend?

Responses:

Items used a 5 point Likert-type scale, 1 = Not at all sure, 5 = Very Sure

Scoring

Not Reported

Citations

Smith, K. W., McGraw, S. A., Costa, L. A., & McKinlay, J. B. (1996). A self-efficacy scale for HIV risk behaviors: Development and evaluation. AIDS Education and Prevention, 8(2), 97.

Scoring breakdown

Measure development

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

Validity

Green: Face validity
Unknown: Convergent validity
Unknown: Construct validity

Reliability

Green: 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