Sexual Health Knowledge Scale (Pai et al., 2013)

• Populations: Adolescent girls
• Age ranges: Taiwan grades 7-9, age M = 13.09
• Countries: Taiwan

Items

Subscales

• Physical and psychological changes in puberty, 5 Items
• Sexually transmitted infections, 4 Items
• Menstrual health / contraception, 6 Items
• Body Autonomy / sexual harassmet, 3 Items

Items by Subscale**

Physical and psychological changes in puberty

• Puzzled (bemused) by sexual love in puberty 
• Awareness of sexual curiosity in puberty 
• Mental changes in puberty 
• Emotional changes in puberty 
• Bodily changes in puberty 

Sexually transmitted infections

• AIDS (HIV) can be transmitted via blood transfusion
• AIDS (HIV) can be transmitted via a needle 
• AIDS (HIV) can be transmitted via mother to child
• Gonorrhea can be transmitted via sexual intercourse

Menstrual health and contraception

• Using an analgesic is the best health for menstrual pain
• Ejaculation outside the vagina can ensure contraception*
• When you have your menstrual period, you cannot exercise*
• Menses occurs via the urethra*
• A vaginal douche can ensure contraception*
• There is no menses during pregnancy 

Body Autonomy 

• The best response to sexual harassment is to keep it to myself and to not tell others*
• Any unwanted touch of any part of my body is sexual harassment
• Body autonomy belongs to parents/others*

*Indicates reverse-scored items

**Items were taken from a factor loading report and may not represent precise final wording for administration

Responses

Items used a 4 point Likert-type scale (1 = not relevant, 2 = somewhat relevant, 3 = quite relevant, and 4 = highly relevant).

Scoring

Not Reported

Citations

Pai, H., Lee, S., Yen, W., & Lee, M. (2013). Testing of the factor structure of the sexual health knowledge measure with young adolescent taiwanese girls. Health Care for Women International, 34(10), 878-890. https://doi.org/10.1080/07399332.2012.700357

Team comments

Subscales low internal consistency

Please note that for this particular measure, the internal consistency surpassed our standards for internal consistency (Cronbach’s α >= .70) only in the case of the full measure, and was not achieved by the individual subscales.