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Attitudes Toward the Female Condom

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Source Article

Neilands, T. B., & Choi, K. H. (2002). A validation and reduced form of the female condom attitudes scale. AIDS Education and Prevention, 14(2), 158-171.

Response Options

4-point Likert scale (1 = agree a lot, 2 = kind of agree, 3 = kind of disagree, 4 = disagree)

Survey Items

Based on what you have heard or seen about the female condom, what do you think about each of the following statements?

  1. Female condoms are better than regular male condoms.
  2. Female condoms are weird.
  3. Female condoms offer better protection against unwanted pregnancy than male condoms do.
  4. It is embarrassing to buy female condoms in a store.
  5. Female condoms put the woman in charge.
  6. Sex doesn’t feel as good when you use a female condom.
  7. It’s embarrassing to put a female condom on in front of a man.
  8. Female condoms make it hard of a woman to have an orgasm (cum).
  9. Female condoms make it hard for a man to have an orgasm (cum).
  10. Female condoms are inconvenient.
  11. Female condoms offer better protection against sexually transmitted diseases than regular male condoms do.
  12. If a woman wants to use a female condom her partner might think she is having sex with someone else.
  13. Female condoms take all the fun out of sex.
  14. Female condoms are stronger than male condoms.
  15. It is hard to find places to buy female condoms.

Internal Reliability

Cronbach's alpha ranges from 0.72 to 0.87 for different factors.

Validity

Construct and convergent validity

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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:

Neilands, T. B., & Choi, K. H. (2002). A validation and reduced form of the female condom attitudes scale. AIDS Education and Prevention, 14(2), 158-171.

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.