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Instrument Title

HIV-Antibody Testing Attitude Scale (HTAS)

View PDF - Boshamer_HTAS.pdf

Source Article

Boshamer, C. B., & Bruce, K. E. (1999). A scale to measure attitudes about HIV-antibody testing: Development and psychometric validation. AIDS Education and Prevention, 11(5), 400-413.

Response Options

For each of the 32 items, respondents indicate on a 5-point Likert scale if they strongly agree, agree, are neutral, disagree or strongly disagree.
Responses are scored such that strong agreement with items that are facilitators for HIV testing (Items 2, 3, 5, 11, 13, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 24, 27, 29, 31, and 32) is given a “5’ and strong disagreement is given a “1”.
Reverse scoring is used for barrier items (Items1, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 19, 23, 25, 26, 28, and 30). Item scores are summed, and higher scores indicate a more favorable attitude toward HIV-antibody testing. The total scores may be standardized to a 0 (con) to 100 (pro) scale to facilitate interpretation using the equation:

25 (Ex-N)/N

where Ex= the sum of the scores and N=the number of items on the HTAS (or the number of items answered).

Survey Items

(Items followed by a are reverse scored.)

  1. HIV-antibody testing is not really confidential. ͣ
  2. HIV test information is kept very confidential by the medical staff who do the testing.
  3. My family would support me if I decided to be tested for HIV.
  4. I would not want anyone to know if I got an HIV test. ͣ
  5. My friends would not look down on me if I were tested for HIV.
  6. Anyone who is tested for HIV is disgusting. ͣ

Internal Reliability

Cronbach's alpha = .88

Validity

Discriminant validity

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Terms Of Use

Individuals may use this information for research or educational purposes only and may not use this information for commercial purposes. When using this instrument, please cite:

Boshamer, C. B., & Bruce, K. E. (1999). A scale to measure attitudes about HIV-antibody testing: Development and psychometric validation. AIDS Education and Prevention, 11(5), 400-413.

When presenting results using any survey information you obtained from the SABI, please acknowledge the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), an NIH funded program P30 AI50410.