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DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF AN HIV/AIDS KNOWLEDGE MEASURE FOR ADOLESCENTS FOCUSING ON MISCONCEPTIONS
Wändi Bruine de Bruin, Julie S. Downs, Baruch Fischhoff, and Claire Palmgren
Measures of adolescents’ HIV/AIDS knowledge that cover only the basic facts may fail to assess underlying misunderstandings in need of intervention. We developed and evaluated a measure covering the broad domain of HIV/AIDS knowledge, emphasizing misunderstandings revealed in semi-structured qualitative interviews. These included the cumulative and relative risks of unsafe behaviors, proper condom use, needle cleaning, HIV test procedures, and disease progression. Reliability was satisfactory; a correlation between test performance and condom use among sexually ...
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