Self-efficacy for contraception use (Wang et al., 2007)

• Populations: Female Adolescents and Young Adults
• Age ranges: 15.1-19.8
• Languages: Mandarin
• Countries: Taiwan

Items

Subscales

• Self-efficacy for Communication about Having Sex and Contraception Use, 5 Items
• Contraception Practice, 4 Items
• Insisting on Contraception, 10 Items

Full Scale not reported, consists of 19 total items.

Example items include 

• “If I want to refuse my sexual partner’s request for sex, I can tell him the reason” 
• “I can go to the drug store to buy condoms without feeling embarrassed”
• “Even though my sexual partner complains about feeling uncomfortable when using contraceptives, I still insist on using them.”

Responses

Items used a 5 point ordinal response format

•  total non-correspondence
• 25%correspondence
• 50% correspondence
• 75% correspondence
• total correspondence

Scoring

 ”Higher total scores indicate higher self-efficacy for contraception use.” (Wang et al., 2007)

Citations

Wang, R., Wang, H., Cheng, C., Hsu, H., & Lin, S. (2007). Testing a model of contraception use behavior among sexually active female adolescents in taiwan. Research in Nursing & Health, 30(6), 628-640. https://doi.org/10.1002/nur.20222

Team comments

This measure is one of several developed alongside one another, including

• Contraception use during the past 3 months
• Self-efficacy for contraception use
• Perceptions of support from significant others for contraception
• Perceptions of support from sexual partners for contraception
• Perceptions of peers’ contraception use

(Wang et al., 2007)