Reliability of Drug Users' Self-Reported HIV Risk Behaviors and Validity of Self-Reported Recent Drug Use
| Autor: | Antonio L. Estrada, John K. Watters, Mark L. Williams, Marcia Andersen, Norman L. Weatherby, Stephanie Tortu, Richard Needle, Dennis G. Fisher, Robert E. Booth, Sherry Deren, Seana Dowling-Guyer, Fen Rhodes, David Fleming, Mark E. Johnson, Lynne Kotranski |
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| Rok vydání: | 1994 |
| Předmět: |
Drug
medicine.medical_specialty education.field_of_study media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Population 050401 social sciences methods 050301 education Risk behavior Human sexuality Hiv risk Clinical Psychology 0504 sociology Internal consistency Structured interview medicine Psychology Psychiatry education 0503 education Applied Psychology Reliability (statistics) Clinical psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Assessment. 1:383-392 |
| ISSN: | 1552-3489 1073-1911 |
| Popis: | This study examined the reliability and validity of the Risk Behavior Assessment, a structured interview questionnaire designed to evaluate drug use and sexual HIV risk behaviors. Participants were 218 drug users currently not in treatment who completed the RBA two times over a 48-hour period and gave urine samples on both occasions. We examined internal consistency and test-retest reliability and found that, overall, drug users reliably report drug use and sexual behavior, although the reliability of reports of specific needle practice and sexual behavior items was somewhat lower. Validity results indicated that drug users' accurately report use of cocaine and opiates. These findings indicate that this self-report questionnaire, when administered by trained interviewers, reliably measures HIV risk behaviors in a drug-using population and provides a valid assessment of recent drug use. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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