Development and Evidence of the Validity of the Condom Use Attitudes Scale for Youth and Adults in a Chilean Context

Condom use is the most effective preventive behavior against HIV transmission, and its inadequate use is a public health problem that occurs mostly among youth and young adults. Although there are scales that measure condom use, those that exist correspond to English-speaking developments or do not...

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Autores principales:	Rodrigo Ferrer-Urbina, Patricio Mena-Chamorro, Geraldy Sepúlveda-Páez, Marcos Carmona-Halty
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Publicado:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
Materias:	attitudes toward condom use HIV/AIDS sexual risk behavior ESEM Psychometric scales development Psychology BF1-990
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:325196ec61374471b2f476f020d1eb0d2021-12-01T21:29:56ZDevelopment and Evidence of the Validity of the Condom Use Attitudes Scale for Youth and Adults in a Chilean Context1664-107810.3389/fpsyg.2021.727499https://doaj.org/article/325196ec61374471b2f476f020d1eb0d2021-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.727499/fullhttps://doaj.org/toc/1664-1078Condom use is the most effective preventive behavior against HIV transmission, and its inadequate use is a public health problem that occurs mostly among youth and young adults. Although there are scales that measure condom use, those that exist correspond to English-speaking developments or do not have psychometric evidence to support them, so it is possible that the available adaptations of instruments do not adequately reflect the phenomenon in the Chilean population. Thus, the study aims to develop a scale to assess attitudes toward condom use in Chilean youth and young adults. Initially, a sample of students between 18 and 39 years (n = 520) was used for debugging the instrument. Then, a second sample was taken from the general population aged 18 to 40 (n = 992) to confirm the factor structure of the proposed model. The final scale has 10 items and 3 attitudinal dimensions (affective, cognitive, and behavioral). The results show that the identified structure provides adequate levels (ω > 0.7) or at least sufficient of reliability (ω > 0.6) and presents evidence of validity, based on the internal structure of the test, through ESEM (CFI = 0.993; TLI = 0.984; RMSEA = 0.056). In addition, evidence of validity was obtained based on the relationship with other variables and strong invariance between the scores of men and women. It is concluded that the scale developed has adequate psychometric properties to assess, in brief form, condom use attitudes in equal samples for research and screening purposes.Rodrigo Ferrer-UrbinaPatricio Mena-ChamorroGeraldy Sepúlveda-PáezMarcos Carmona-HaltyFrontiers Media S.A.articleattitudes toward condom useHIV/AIDSsexual risk behaviorESEMPsychometric scales developmentPsychologyBF1-990ENFrontiers in Psychology, Vol 12 (2021)
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topic	attitudes toward condom use HIV/AIDS sexual risk behavior ESEM Psychometric scales development Psychology BF1-990
spellingShingle	attitudes toward condom use HIV/AIDS sexual risk behavior ESEM Psychometric scales development Psychology BF1-990 Rodrigo Ferrer-Urbina Patricio Mena-Chamorro Geraldy Sepúlveda-Páez Marcos Carmona-Halty Development and Evidence of the Validity of the Condom Use Attitudes Scale for Youth and Adults in a Chilean Context
description	Condom use is the most effective preventive behavior against HIV transmission, and its inadequate use is a public health problem that occurs mostly among youth and young adults. Although there are scales that measure condom use, those that exist correspond to English-speaking developments or do not have psychometric evidence to support them, so it is possible that the available adaptations of instruments do not adequately reflect the phenomenon in the Chilean population. Thus, the study aims to develop a scale to assess attitudes toward condom use in Chilean youth and young adults. Initially, a sample of students between 18 and 39 years (n = 520) was used for debugging the instrument. Then, a second sample was taken from the general population aged 18 to 40 (n = 992) to confirm the factor structure of the proposed model. The final scale has 10 items and 3 attitudinal dimensions (affective, cognitive, and behavioral). The results show that the identified structure provides adequate levels (ω > 0.7) or at least sufficient of reliability (ω > 0.6) and presents evidence of validity, based on the internal structure of the test, through ESEM (CFI = 0.993; TLI = 0.984; RMSEA = 0.056). In addition, evidence of validity was obtained based on the relationship with other variables and strong invariance between the scores of men and women. It is concluded that the scale developed has adequate psychometric properties to assess, in brief form, condom use attitudes in equal samples for research and screening purposes.
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author	Rodrigo Ferrer-Urbina Patricio Mena-Chamorro Geraldy Sepúlveda-Páez Marcos Carmona-Halty
author_facet	Rodrigo Ferrer-Urbina Patricio Mena-Chamorro Geraldy Sepúlveda-Páez Marcos Carmona-Halty
author_sort	Rodrigo Ferrer-Urbina
title	Development and Evidence of the Validity of the Condom Use Attitudes Scale for Youth and Adults in a Chilean Context
title_short	Development and Evidence of the Validity of the Condom Use Attitudes Scale for Youth and Adults in a Chilean Context
title_full	Development and Evidence of the Validity of the Condom Use Attitudes Scale for Youth and Adults in a Chilean Context
title_fullStr	Development and Evidence of the Validity of the Condom Use Attitudes Scale for Youth and Adults in a Chilean Context
title_full_unstemmed	Development and Evidence of the Validity of the Condom Use Attitudes Scale for Youth and Adults in a Chilean Context
title_sort	development and evidence of the validity of the condom use attitudes scale for youth and adults in a chilean context
publisher	Frontiers Media S.A.
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/325196ec61374471b2f476f020d1eb0d
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Development and Evidence of the Validity of the Condom Use Attitudes Scale for Youth and Adults in a Chilean Context

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