Sexual Health Questionnaire (Acharya, Thomas, & Cann, 2016)
- Populations: Adolescents
- Age ranges: 14-18
- Countries: Nepal
Items
Subscales:
- sexual health norms and beliefs, 4 Items
- sources of sexual health information, 6 Items
- sexual health knowledge and understanding, 4 Items
- sexual health awareness level, 4 Items
Items by subscale
Sexual Health Norms and Beliefs
- I believe in abstinence which means to avoid sex,
- female should be considered as untouchable during the menstruation,
- a girl losses her dignity if she has sex before marriage
- girl can suggest boy to use condom if he is suffered from STI
Sources of Sexual Health Information
- Source of information friends/peers
- Source of information relatives of similar age
- Source of information health professionals
- Visitor from outside such as health facilitator
- Youth volunteer worker
- Chemist or pharmacy
Sexual Health Knowledge and Understanding
- Unsafe sexual behaviour is adolescents’ current problem
- STIs may cause infertility
- Loneliness occurs as a result of emotional changes
- It is better to have only one sex partner for sexual relationship
Sexual Health Awareness Level
- Parental counseling is important for young people’s sexual health development,
- fertilization is a natural process that takes place in fallopian tube,
- adolescent experience growth of height during physical change
- condom is used correctly and consistently for safer sex purpose
Scoring
“These later items were phrased using a typical 5‑point Likert scale ranging from strongly disagree (1) to strongly agree (5). The 5‑point Likert scale has a middle neutral point, which provides the respondent more room to think about which side they would like to go for the answers. For the statistical significance, 5‑point Likert scale tends to show the answer as a normal distribution toward a larger middle portion.” (Acharya, Thomas, & Cann, 2016)
Citations
Acharya DR, Thomas M, Cann R. Validation of a questionnaire to measure sexual health knowledge and understanding (Sexual Health Questionnaire) in Nepalese secondary school: A psychometric process. J Edu Health Promot 2016;5:18.
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
- Green: 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
