Development and evidence of validity of the HIV risk perception scale for young adults in a Hispanic-American context

HIV/AIDS is a public health problem that is transmitted through risky sexual behavior. The literature suggests that the perception of HIV risk is a motivator for the prevention of risky sexual behaviors. There is no culturally adapted scale to assess HIV risk perception in the Hispanic-American popu...

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Autores principales: Mena-Chamorro, Patricio, Ferrer-Urbina, Rodrigo, Sepúlveda-Páez, Geraldy, Cortés-Mercado, Francisca, Gutierrez-Mamani, Carolina, Lagos-Maldonado, Kyara, Peña-Daldo, María
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7173927/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32315322
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0231558
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author Mena-Chamorro, Patricio
Ferrer-Urbina, Rodrigo
Sepúlveda-Páez, Geraldy
Cortés-Mercado, Francisca
Gutierrez-Mamani, Carolina
Lagos-Maldonado, Kyara
Peña-Daldo, María
author_facet Mena-Chamorro, Patricio
Ferrer-Urbina, Rodrigo
Sepúlveda-Páez, Geraldy
Cortés-Mercado, Francisca
Gutierrez-Mamani, Carolina
Lagos-Maldonado, Kyara
Peña-Daldo, María
author_sort Mena-Chamorro, Patricio
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description HIV/AIDS is a public health problem that is transmitted through risky sexual behavior. The literature suggests that the perception of HIV risk is a motivator for the prevention of risky sexual behaviors. There is no culturally adapted scale to assess HIV risk perception in the Hispanic-American population. The aim of this research was to develop a scale to assess HIV risk perception in Hispanic-American young adults. A cross-sectional instrumental design was used, with a sample of students from the Chilean city with the highest HIV rates. Participants (n = 524) were between 18 and 33 years old, of whom 51% were women, 84.4% said they were heterosexual and 43.7% said they had not been tested for HIV/AIDS. The final scale has 9 items and 2 dimensions: (1) perceived risk susceptibility and (2) perceived risk severity. The results showed that the identified structure provided adequate levels of reliability (ω > .8) and presented evidence of validity, based on the internal structure of the test (i.e., using ESEM) and on the relationship with other variables (i.e., the sexual risk behaviors scale). In addition, the results showed strong invariance between the scores for men and women. It is concluded that the HIV risk perception scale has adequate psychometric properties to assess HIV risk perception in equivalent samples.
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spelling pubmed-71739272020-04-27 Development and evidence of validity of the HIV risk perception scale for young adults in a Hispanic-American context Mena-Chamorro, Patricio Ferrer-Urbina, Rodrigo Sepúlveda-Páez, Geraldy Cortés-Mercado, Francisca Gutierrez-Mamani, Carolina Lagos-Maldonado, Kyara Peña-Daldo, María PLoS One Research Article HIV/AIDS is a public health problem that is transmitted through risky sexual behavior. The literature suggests that the perception of HIV risk is a motivator for the prevention of risky sexual behaviors. There is no culturally adapted scale to assess HIV risk perception in the Hispanic-American population. The aim of this research was to develop a scale to assess HIV risk perception in Hispanic-American young adults. A cross-sectional instrumental design was used, with a sample of students from the Chilean city with the highest HIV rates. Participants (n = 524) were between 18 and 33 years old, of whom 51% were women, 84.4% said they were heterosexual and 43.7% said they had not been tested for HIV/AIDS. The final scale has 9 items and 2 dimensions: (1) perceived risk susceptibility and (2) perceived risk severity. The results showed that the identified structure provided adequate levels of reliability (ω > .8) and presented evidence of validity, based on the internal structure of the test (i.e., using ESEM) and on the relationship with other variables (i.e., the sexual risk behaviors scale). In addition, the results showed strong invariance between the scores for men and women. It is concluded that the HIV risk perception scale has adequate psychometric properties to assess HIV risk perception in equivalent samples. Public Library of Science 2020-04-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7173927/ /pubmed/32315322 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0231558 Text en © 2020 Mena-Chamorro et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Mena-Chamorro, Patricio
Ferrer-Urbina, Rodrigo
Sepúlveda-Páez, Geraldy
Cortés-Mercado, Francisca
Gutierrez-Mamani, Carolina
Lagos-Maldonado, Kyara
Peña-Daldo, María
Development and evidence of validity of the HIV risk perception scale for young adults in a Hispanic-American context
title Development and evidence of validity of the HIV risk perception scale for young adults in a Hispanic-American context
title_full Development and evidence of validity of the HIV risk perception scale for young adults in a Hispanic-American context
title_fullStr Development and evidence of validity of the HIV risk perception scale for young adults in a Hispanic-American context
title_full_unstemmed Development and evidence of validity of the HIV risk perception scale for young adults in a Hispanic-American context
title_short Development and evidence of validity of the HIV risk perception scale for young adults in a Hispanic-American context
title_sort development and evidence of validity of the hiv risk perception scale for young adults in a hispanic-american context
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7173927/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32315322
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0231558
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