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Attitudes — This domain scheduled to be updated in 2022
| Domain | Sub-Domain | Instrument Name | Description | Citation (Authors) | Language/ Geographic Location |
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| Attitudes Toward Condoms Scale (ATC) | The instrument has 40 items. The response options are on a 5-item Likert scale from Strongly Disagree to Strongly Agree. Initially, the scale was developed as an "assessment instrument for use in research directed toward promotion of barrier methods of contraception". The instrument is used in HIV research. | Brown, I. S. (1984). Development of a scale to measure attitude toward the condom as a method of birth control. The Journal of Sex Research, 20(3), 255-263. |
English |
* HIV-negative * Students |
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| HIV/AIDS Conspiracy Beliefs | The instrument has 9 items. The respondents rate "using a condom every time they have sex in the next 3 months along 9 dimensions: pleasant/unpleasant, good/bad, beneficial/harmful, enjoyable/unenjoyable, satisfying/unsatisfying, easy/difficult, safe/dangerous, moral/immoral, and wise/foolish. Each dimension was rated on a 5-point scale (eg, 1 [very harmful] to 5 [very beneficial])." | 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. |
English |
* African American * HIV-negative |
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| Condom Attitude Scale (CAS) | The instrument has 57 items. There are eight attitude factors: Interpersonal Impact, Effect on Sexual Experience, Self-control, Global Attitude, Perceived Risk, Relationship Safety, Promiscuity, and Inhibition. | Sacco, W. P., Levine, B., Reed, D. L., & Thompson, K. (1991). Attitudes about condom use as an AIDS-relevant behavior: Their factor structure and relation to condom use. Psychological Assessment, 3(2), 265-272. |
English |
* HIV-negative * Students |
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| Condom Attitude Scale (CAS) for Adolescents | "The Condom Attitude Scale (W. P. Sacco, B. Levine, D. L. Reed, & K. Thompson, 1991) was modified for use with adolescents." The scale has 23 items. There are six factors-Relationship Safety, Perceived Risk, Interpersonal Impact, Safety, Effect on Sexual Experience, and Promiscuity | St Lawrence, J. S., Reitman, D., Jefferson, K. W., Alleyne, E., Brasfield, T. L., & Shirley, A. (1994). Factor structure and validation of an adolescent version of the condom attitude scale: An instrument for measuring adolescents' attitudes toward condoms. Psychological Assessment, 6(4), 352-359. |
English |
* Adolescents * Youth * HIV-negative |
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| The UCLA Multidimensional Condom Attitudes Scale (MCAS) | The instrument has 24 items. "All of Brown's (1984) condom attitude scale questions that loaded above .35 were included (29 out of 40 questions met this requirement). A number of other questions from previous investigations (Campbell et al., 1992; Collins, 1989; Collins & Aspinwall, 1988, 1989) were included, and further items were developed to maximize the range and heterogeneity of items in the initial set." "The MCAS has five distinct factors: (a) Reliability and Effectiveness of condoms, (b) the sexual Pleasure associated with condom use, (c) the stigma attached to persons who use condoms (Identity Stigma), (d) the Embarrassment About Negotiation and Use of condoms, and (e) the Embarrassment About the Purchase of condoms." The authors suggest that "suggest that condom attitudes are multidimensional and thus cannot meaningfully be summed to a single global score." | Helweg-Larsen, M., & Collins, B. E. (1994). The UCLA multidimensional condom attitudes scale: Documenting the complex determinants of condom use in college students. Health Psychology, 13(3), 224-237. |
English |
* HIV-negative * Students |
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| Condom Attitude Scale (Shortened Version) | The authors "used a shortened 4-item version of the Condom Attitudes Scale (Hewling-Larsen, M., & Collins, B. (1991, August). Framing messages to promote condom use. Paper presented at the meeting of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA.) as adapted for previous research (Kalichman, Kelly, & Rompa, 1997). Items included "Condoms ruin the mood," and "Using condoms is an interruption of foreplay," 1 = Strongly Agree, 4=Strongly Disagree. | Benotsch, E. G., Kalichman, S., & Cage, M. (2002). Men who have met sex partners via the internet: Prevalence, predictors, and implications for HIV prevention. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 31(2), 177-183. |
English |
* Men who have sex with men (MSM) * Men * HIV-negative |
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| Attitudes Toward the Female Condom | The instrument contains 15 Likert-scale items (from "Agree a lot" to "Disagree a lot" and "Don't know") and five factors: Sexual Pleasure Enhancement, Inconvenience, Improved Prophylaxis, Sexual Pleasure Inhibition, Insertion Reluctance. | 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. |
English |
* Women * HIV-negative |
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| Attitudes about Safer Sex (Subset of Sexual Risks Scale) | The instrument assesses attitudes toward condom; it is a subscale of the Sexual Risks Scale. It contains 13 items with 5-point Likert scale response options from "Strongly disagree" to "Strongly agree". | Dehart, D. D., & Birkimer, J. C. (1997). Trying to practice safer sex: Development of the sexual risks scale. The Journal of Sex Research, 34(1) |
English |
* HIV-negative * Students |
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