Sadat Zohreh, Ghofranipour Fazlollah, Azin Seyed Ali, Montazeri Ali, Goshtasebi Azita, Bagheri Azam, Barati Elham
Department of Midwifery, Nursing Trauma Research Center, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran.
Department of Health Education and Health Promotion, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.
Int J Reprod Biomed. 2018 Jan;16(1):41-50.
Designing a valid and reliable questionnaire that allows a fair evaluation of sexual knowledge and attitudes and develop a proper sexual educational program is necessary.
The present study was designed to develop and psychometric evaluation of the sexual knowledge and attitudes scale for premarital couples.
An exploratory mixed method study was conducted in two phases; in the first, in order to develop a questionnaire an item pool was generated on sexual knowledge and attitudes through focus group discussions and individual interviews. In the second phase, the psychometric properties of the questionnaire were examined. For this purpose, face validity, content validity as well as construct validity were conducted. Reliability was assessed by the Cronbach's alpha coefficient to assess internal consistency and test-retest reliability.
In the first phase an item pool with 88 questions was generated (sexual knowledge 45 items and sexual attitudes 43 items). In the second phase, the number of final items reduced to 33 and 34 items of sexual knowledge and sexual attitudes respectively, through exploratory factor analysis (EFA). Five factors for sexual knowledge and six factors for sexual attitudes identified by EFA. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient for two sections was 0.84 and 0.81 respectively. The test- retest correlations for sexual knowledge and sexual attitude was 0.74 and 0.82 respectively.
The findings suggest that the Sexual Knowledge and Attitudes Scale for Premarital Couples is a valid and reliable instrument. Further studies are needed to establish stronger psychometric properties for the questionnaire.
设计一个有效且可靠的问卷,以便对性知识和态度进行公正评估,并制定合适的性教育计划是必要的。
本研究旨在开发婚前情侣性知识和态度量表并进行心理测量学评估。
进行了一项探索性混合方法研究,分为两个阶段;第一阶段,为了开发问卷,通过焦点小组讨论和个人访谈生成了关于性知识和态度的项目池。第二阶段,检验问卷的心理测量学特性。为此,进行了表面效度、内容效度以及结构效度检验。通过Cronbach's alpha系数评估信度,以评估内部一致性和重测信度。
第一阶段生成了一个包含88个问题的项目池(性知识45项,性态度43项)。第二阶段,通过探索性因素分析(EFA),性知识和性态度的最终项目数分别减少到33项和34项。EFA确定了性知识的五个因素和性态度的六个因素。两部分的Cronbach's alpha系数分别为0.84和0.81。性知识和性态度的重测相关性分别为0.74和0.82。
研究结果表明婚前情侣性知识和态度量表是一个有效且可靠的工具。需要进一步研究以建立该问卷更强的心理测量学特性。