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[Development of college students' condom attitude scale]
1Department of Nursing, College of Medicine, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 156-756, Korea. goodcare@cau.ac.kr
Purpose:
The aim of this study was to design and evaluate a scale for measuring the attitudes toward condom use in sexual relationships.
Method:
A questionnaire was administered to 631 college students using a convenience sampling method. The psychometric properties (reliability and validity) were evaluated.
Result:
As a result of the item analysis, 16 items were selected and the internal consistency alpha coefficient was .88. Results indicated that the condom attitude scale is composed of three factors: Interruption of sexual pleasure; Protection; and Image. The three factors accounted for 59.54% of the variance in the total scale. Also, condom attitude was statistically significant (t=7.389, p=.000) between consistent condom users and inconsistent users.
Conclusion:
The results demonstrate that condom attitudes are multidimensional, and the reliability and validity of the scale was supported.