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Designing and validating a new youth and adolescent sexual knowledge scale

INTRODUCTION: There is an increasing trend of premarital sexual experience and teenage pregnancies in Malaysia, coupled with a paucity of data regarding sexual practices amongst adolescents. Current available sexual knowledge scales that were reviewed were found unsuitable to be applied...

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Main Authors: Ridzwan, Hijaz, Musa, Ramli, Zakaria, Rozanizam
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Published: KOM, IIUM 2023
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spelling my.iium.irep.1043282024-01-24T09:00:37Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/104328/ Designing and validating a new youth and adolescent sexual knowledge scale Ridzwan, Hijaz Musa, Ramli Zakaria, Rozanizam RZ Other systems of medicine INTRODUCTION: There is an increasing trend of premarital sexual experience and teenage pregnancies in Malaysia, coupled with a paucity of data regarding sexual practices amongst adolescents. Current available sexual knowledge scales that were reviewed were found unsuitable to be applied to the Malaysian population, due to a multitude of factors such cultural and religious sensitivity; explicit nature and contents; targeting specific populations; non-comprehensiveness; MATERIALS AND METHODS: The development of a new scale, Youth and Adolescent Sexual Knowledge Scale (YASKS) is divided into qualitative and quantitative stages. The qualitative stage involved extensive literature review of currently available and related scales and expert interviews (qualitative content validity) to identify the domains for sexual knowledge; item identification for each domain and language review. In the quantitative stage, the pretest of the pre-final version, and validation study were conducted among students from International Islamic University Malaysia, in Kuantan. RESULTS: Initial Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) revealed 11 factors with overall Cronbach alpha of 0.3, 95% CI (0.251,0.422) EFA was then repeated with two factors resulting in deletion of 19 items. Cronbach alpha significantly improved to 0.695% CI (0.548, 0.643), while the alpha for the two domains were 0.68, CI (0.637, 0.724) and 0.5, 95% CI (0.455,0.589).CONCLUSION: This study revealed a two-factor model with 12 items of the YASKS with acceptable psychometric properties. This scale is valid and reliable to measure sexual knowledge among youth and adolescents in Kuantan. KOM, IIUM 2023-04-01 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/104328/2/104328_Designing%20and%20validating%20a%20new%20youth.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/104328/8/104328_Designing%20and%20Validating%20a%20New%20Youth%20and%20Adolescent_Scopus.pdf Ridzwan, Hijaz and Musa, Ramli and Zakaria, Rozanizam (2023) Designing and validating a new youth and adolescent sexual knowledge scale. IIUM Medical Journal Malaysia, 22 (2). pp. 47-54. ISSN 1823-4631 E-ISSN 2735-2285 https://journals.iium.edu.my/kom/index.php/imjm/article/view/1942 10.31436/imjm.v22i2.1942
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Ridzwan, Hijaz
Musa, Ramli
Zakaria, Rozanizam
Designing and validating a new youth and adolescent sexual knowledge scale
description INTRODUCTION: There is an increasing trend of premarital sexual experience and teenage pregnancies in Malaysia, coupled with a paucity of data regarding sexual practices amongst adolescents. Current available sexual knowledge scales that were reviewed were found unsuitable to be applied to the Malaysian population, due to a multitude of factors such cultural and religious sensitivity; explicit nature and contents; targeting specific populations; non-comprehensiveness; MATERIALS AND METHODS: The development of a new scale, Youth and Adolescent Sexual Knowledge Scale (YASKS) is divided into qualitative and quantitative stages. The qualitative stage involved extensive literature review of currently available and related scales and expert interviews (qualitative content validity) to identify the domains for sexual knowledge; item identification for each domain and language review. In the quantitative stage, the pretest of the pre-final version, and validation study were conducted among students from International Islamic University Malaysia, in Kuantan. RESULTS: Initial Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) revealed 11 factors with overall Cronbach alpha of 0.3, 95% CI (0.251,0.422) EFA was then repeated with two factors resulting in deletion of 19 items. Cronbach alpha significantly improved to 0.695% CI (0.548, 0.643), while the alpha for the two domains were 0.68, CI (0.637, 0.724) and 0.5, 95% CI (0.455,0.589).CONCLUSION: This study revealed a two-factor model with 12 items of the YASKS with acceptable psychometric properties. This scale is valid and reliable to measure sexual knowledge among youth and adolescents in Kuantan.
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Musa, Ramli
Zakaria, Rozanizam
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Zakaria, Rozanizam
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title Designing and validating a new youth and adolescent sexual knowledge scale
title_short Designing and validating a new youth and adolescent sexual knowledge scale
title_full Designing and validating a new youth and adolescent sexual knowledge scale
title_fullStr Designing and validating a new youth and adolescent sexual knowledge scale
title_full_unstemmed Designing and validating a new youth and adolescent sexual knowledge scale
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