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18592805

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-7-2
pubmed:abstractText
This study examined the validity of a single-item measure of HIV risk stage of change that HIV prevention contractors were required to collect by the California State Office of AIDS. The single-item measure was compared to the more conventional University of Rhode Island Change Assessment (URICA). Participants were members of Los Angeles County-defined behavioral risk groups recruited from a mobile HIV testing program (N = 123). The study found low correspondence between participants' stage of change on the single-item and the URICA, suggesting that they do not assess the same construct, and that the single item may not provide a valid measure. The current data suggests that the single-item measure should be revised or abandoned in favor of more conventional stage-of-change measures.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0047-2379
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
38
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
27-37
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Assessing the validity of a single-item HIV risk stage-of-change measure.
pubmed:affiliation
California State University, Long Beach, CA 90813, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't