Development of a culturally, theoretically and developmentally based survey instrument for assessing risk behaviors among African-American early adolescents living in urban low-income neighborhoods.

摘要: The creation of developmentally and culturally appropriate data-gathering instruments is necessary as health researchers interventionists expand their investigations to community-based minority adolescent populations. such a complex process, requiring the integration multiple analytic approaches. Recent efforts have delineated several issues be considered in survey design for populations: community collaboration; problem conceptualization; application presumed model behavioral change; dialect format delivery. This paper describes process creating appropriate, theoretically grounded instrument use monitoring impact an AIDS educational intervention on behavior outcomes urban African-American pre-adolescents early adolescents. Three phases research were involved: preliminary (and ongoing) ethnographic including extensive participant observation, well as, focus group individual interviews with 65 youths; construction testing involving two waves pilot (N 1 = 57; N 2 45); and, finalization reliability assessment tool constructs selection mode delivery (involving additional 3 91; 4 351). essential role played by all development underscored