Sexual Knowledge Scale (Lou & Chen, 2009)

Current knowledge about sexual topics in middle to late adolescents; 9 Items

Populations: Middle and Late Adolescents
Age ranges: Recruited through Taiwanese Junior college classes (a typical age group of approximately 15-20)
Languages: Not reported
Countries: Taiwan

Items

Subscales

Pregnancy Knowledge 1, 2 Items
Pregnancy Knowledge 2, 2 Items
Chromosomal, not reported
Reproduction, not reported, combined these two scales contain 5 Items

Examples are not reported

Scoring

Correct answers were given a score of 1 and incorrect answers were given a score of 0. Higher scores indicated more sexual knowledge.

Citations

Lou, J., & Chen, S. (2009). Relationships among sexual knowledge, sexual attitudes, and safe sex behaviour among adolescents: A structural equation model. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 46(12), 1595-1603. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2009.05.017

Team comments
Pregnancy Knowledge 2 and Reproduction knowledge subscales did not reach our threshold for adequacy in terms of Internal Consistency.

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