Instrument details

Instrument Title

AIDS Talk Questionnaire

View PDF - AIDS Talk Questionnaire_Lalljee.pdf

Source Article

Lalljee, M., & Palmer-Canton, E. (2001). Communication and consistency: AIDS talk and AIDS attitudes. J Psychol, 135(1), 87-99.

Response Options

Respondents are asked to rate on a 4-point scale ranging from rarely, not very often, fairly often, to very often how frequently they talked to the person about AIDS. They were then asked to indicate whether they had talked about each of 8 topics.

Survey Items

1. Willing to interact with a person with AIDS
2. Worries that you or other people you know might
3. The ways in which AIDS can be spread
4. Buying or using a condom
5. The morality of AIDS
6. The quality of life of people with AIDS
7. Social and legal issues connected with AIDS
8. How to introduce the topic of AIDS and condom contract AIDS use in a new relationship

Internal Reliability

Chronbach alpha for the attitude towards AIDS scale was low (alpha =0.51). It was equal 0.78 on six items chosen after factor analysis, p 92.

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:

Lalljee, M., & Palmer-Canton, E. (2001). Communication and consistency: AIDS talk and AIDS attitudes. J Psychol, 135(1), 87-99.

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.