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Instrument Title

HIV/AIDS Conspiracy Beliefs

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Source Article

Bogart, L. M., & Thorburn, S. (2005). Are HIV/AIDS conspiracy beliefs a barrier to HIV prevention among african americans? JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 38(2), 213.

Response Options

Strongly disagree, Somewhat disagree, Neutral, Somewhat agree, Strongly agree

Survey Items

  1. HIV is a manmade virus
  2. AIDS was produced in a government laboratory
  3. There is a cure for AIDS, but it is being withheld from the poor
  4. AIDS is a form of genocide, or planned destruction, against Blacks
  5. AIDS was created by the government to control the Black population
  6. HIV was created and spread by the CIA
  7. People who take the new medications for HIV are human guinea pigs for the government
  8. The medicine that doctors prescribe to treat HIV is poison
  9. The medication used to treat HIV causes people to get AIDS

Internal Reliability

Internal consistency reliability = 0.88, split-half reliability = 0.90

Validity

Validity information was not available.

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Terms Of Use

Individuals may use this information for research or educational purposes only and may not use this information for commercial purposes. When using this instrument, please cite:

Bogart, L. M., & Thorburn, S. (2005). Are HIV/AIDS conspiracy beliefs a barrier to HIV prevention among african americans? JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 38(2), 213.

When presenting results using any survey information you obtained from the SABI, please acknowledge the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), an NIH funded program P30 AI50410.