AIDS-Related Items for Developing an AIDS Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents

Abstract

This study presents a pool of AIDS-related items that researchers and clinicians could use to develop self-report AIDS questionnaires for children and adolescents. A total of 352AIDS-related itemsfrom 18AIDSsurvey studies involving children and adolescents, ranging in age from 10 to 21 years, were submitted to content analysis. Unique items with 85% agreement among raters, and items with the higher percentage of agreement (85% or above) among repeated items, were selected. On the basis of these criteria, 164 AIDS-related items were identified AIDS-related items were integrated intofwve mutually exclusive, theoretically defined groups: (a)factual knowledge, (b) misconceptions, (c) attitudes, (d) perceived susceptibility, and (e) perceived self-efficacy. Selection of itemsfrom these groups could lead to the development of a comprehensive and uniform self-report AIDS questionnaire for children and adolescents, and to meaningful comparisons of AIDS surveys by researchers and clinicians using similar items.

The International AIDS Questionnaire—English Version (IAQ-E)

“…Furthermore, as the HIV/AIDS epidemic is a global concern, a comprehensive measure of HIV/AIDS awareness should also enable cross-cultural comparisons. While several studies have investigated HIV/AIDS knowledge (Lewis, Malow, & Ireland, 1997;Li et al, 2004;Odusanya & Alakija, 2004), or attitudes, (Bruce & Reid, 1998;Bruce & Walker, 2001), there has been little research using multidimensional measures of HIV/AIDS awareness (Paniagua et al, 1994), and we have found no existing multidimensional HIV/AIDS questionnaires that enable cross-cultural comparisons in different languages. Therefore, this paper assessed the reliability and validity of an HIV/AIDS questionnaire that measures fours dimensions of HIV/AIDS awareness-factual knowledge, prejudice, personal risk, and misconceptions about HIV transmission, and will enable cross-cultural research.…”

The Assessment of HIV/AIDS Knowledge, Attitudes,Self-Efficacy,and Susceptibility Among Psychiatrically Hospitalized

“…Psychiatric diagnoses were made using the DSM-IW (American Psychiatric Association, 1987). Paniagua et al (1994) identified 352 HIVIAIDS-related items used in prior studies with adolescents representing healthy adolescents, juvenile delinquents, pregnant adolescents, runaways, and dropouts. Psychiatrically hospitalized adolescents were not included.…”

Parents' Heterosexism and Children's Attitudes Toward People With Aids

“…transmission, these are not included in the scale so as to only measure one dimension of HIV/AIDS transmission information-misconceptions. These questions were chosen from the hundreds of AIDS-related questions for adolescents and children that have been tested for content validity (Paniagua et al 1994). In addition, test-retest reliability (.84 at time one and .86 at time two, [Sittig 1996]) showed that young children do not have a problem giving reliable answers to the questions concerning the transmission of the AIDS virus (Sly, Eberstein, Quadagno, Kistner, Hummer and Hussey 1992).…”