Autor/Autorin: Nigatu Tilahun
Measuring barriers to behavioral change in HIV prevention needs a contextually validated tool.
This research is all about developing a research tool that will be used to measure barriers to behavioral change in HIV prevention. It adresses the main barriers to ABC (abstinence, being faithful, condom use), VCT (voluntary counseling and testing) and care and support. The tool is intended to measure those behavioral change barriers among university students in developing countries. Besides, the methodology used in developing the tool is standard and includes qualiative methods for generating items, expert review and pilot study to refine and draft tools and major qualiative study to validate the tools. The study has established the validity, reliability and aggregation methods for the item data. Rotations and loading techniques were used for checking internal validity of the data. I believe a reader of this artice will benefit from the methods used.
This research is all about developing a research tool that will be used to measure barriers to behavioral change in HIV prevention. It adresses the main barriers to ABC (abstinence, being faithful, condom use), VCT (voluntary counseling and testing) and care and support. The tool is intended to measure those behavioral change barriers among university students in developing countries. Besides, the methodology used in developing the tool is standard and includes qualiative methods for generating items, expert review and pilot study to refine and draft tools and major qualiative study to validate the tools. The study has established the validity, reliability and aggregation methods for the item data. Rotations and loading techniques were used for checking internal validity of the data. I believe a reader of this artice will benefit from the methods used.
Measuring barriers to behavioral change in HIV prevention needs a contextually validated tool.
Über den Autor
Tilahun Nigatu has experiences in lecturing health research methods and in managing and conducting over 20 health research projects. Hence it will be easy to get convinced of his interlinked theoretical and practical experiences in health research than are adequate to write this book. Nice reading that could lead to researching health.
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This research is all about developing a research tool that will be used to measure barriers to behavioral change in HIV prevention. It adresses the main barriers to ABC (abstinence, being faithful, condom use), VCT (voluntary counseling and testing) and care and support. The tool is intended to measure those behavioral change barriers among university students in developing countries. Besides, the methodology used in developing the tool is standard and includes qualiative methods for generating items, expert review and pilot study to refine and draft tools and major qualiative study to validate the tools. The study has established the validity, reliability and aggregation methods for the item data. Rotations and loading techniques were used for checking internal validity of the data. I believe a reader of this artice will benefit from the methods used.
