HIV-AIDS Course, Chapter 3 - Digging Deeper: Assessing Attitudes Using Youth Surveys
Guidelines for the Surveys
This next section includes several surveys, touching on all aspects of student life in and beyond classrooms, in families, in social settings, and in privacy. The surveys have been assembled to assist developing country researchers in knowing the students they teach and in designing programs and curricula that make an impact. The surveys contain a wealth of questions obtained from several different existing surveys on adolescent reproductive health.
The questions are sorted into sections, which were chosen to reflect the wide range of adolescent reproductive health issues. Like all surveys, questions should be adapted to local contexts.
PLEASE VIEW THE SURVEYS AS LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES, RATHER THAN OBLIGATIONS OR DATA GATHERING. USE THEM AS KEYS TO DESIGNING A PROGRAM THAT FITS YOUR NEEDS.
The categories may appear to overlap. Please review related sections to find the questions you need.
There are THREE ways in which you can send your responses to your HIV-AIDS Mentor.
- Copy and paste or retype the questions to a file and send them to your instructor via email. The email address is: hiv@teacherswithoutborders.org.
- Upload the file to your Personal File Storage. To do so, save this as a Word file (doc) or a txt file (txt). When you log on as a Learner to the HIV-AIDS for Educators course, you'll see a place where you can upload files to your instructor. If you need more instructions about this, please click on Outline and view the section: "How To Use Your Personal File Storage."
- You can send the survey in the post to the following address:
HIV-AIDS Mentor
Teachers Without Borders
2880 74th Avenue, S.E.
Mercer Island, WA 98040 U.S.A.
Students and Risk
Included in this section on Risk Behaviors are 3 surveys. These 3 surveys must be conducted in an honest, confidential atmosphere. Students must be assured that the information collected SHALL NOT be used against individuals.
No information will be used against anyone else they mention. All of these surveys are only a general measure of how a given community can assess the knowledge and behavior base of a community. With good information in hand, then a community can build the kind of successful program that will stem the tide HIV-AIDS in their community.
Survey 1: Smoking, Drugs, and Alcohol (online)
Survey 2: Risk Behaviors (online)
Survey 3: Delinquency (online)
Sending Responses to TWB
There are THREE ways in which you can send your responses to your HIV-AIDS Mentor or TWB.
- Copy and paste or retype the questions to a file and send them to your instructor via email. The email address is: hiv@teacherswithoutborders.org.
- Upload the file to your Personal File Storage. To do so, save this as a Word file (doc) or a txt file (txt). When you log on as a Learner to the HIV-AIDS for Educators course, you'll see a place where you can upload files to your instructor. If you need more instructions about this, please click on Outline and view the section: "How To Use Your Personal File Storage."
- You can send the survey in the post to the following address:
HIV-AIDS Mentor Teachers Without Borders 2880 74th Avenue, S.E. Mercer Island, WA 98040 U.S.A.
Surveys on Leisure Activities
Included in this section on Leisure Activites are 3 surveys:
1) Survey 1: Social Networks, Activities, and Media
Social Networks, Activities, and Media
2) Survey 2: Future Goals and Opportunities
Future Goals and Opportunities
3) Survey 3: Psychosocial Concerns and Sexuality
Surveys on Social Support and Sex Education
Included in this section are 3 surveys. These 3 surveys must be conducted in an honest, confidential atmosphere. Students must be assured that the information collected SHALL NOT be used against individuals.
No information will be used against anyone else they mention. All of these surveys are only a general measure of how a given community can assess the knowledge and behavior base of a community. With good information in hand, then a community can build the kind of successful program that will stem the tide of HIV-AIDS in their community.
Survey 1: Social Networks and Activities
Social Networks and Activities
Survey 2: Family Relationships and Risk Taking
Family Relationships and Risk Taking
Survey 3: Sex Education and Communication ( PDF)
Sex Education and Communication
Surveys on Sexual Relationships
This survey has to do with intimate subjects. Proceed with caution and look for the safest place for teens to respond to this survey. Please assure them as well that this information will NOT be used against any individual, but rather as an information-gathering exercise in order to stem the tide of HIV and AIDS.
These 3 surveys must be conducted in an honest, confidential atmosphere. Students must be assured that the information collected SHALL NOT be used against individuals. No information will be used against anyone else they mention. All of these surveys are only a general measure of how a given community can assess the knowledge and behavior base of a community. With good information in hand, then a community can build the kind of successful program that will stem the tide HIV-AIDS in their community.
There are 3 surveys here:
1) Sexual Practices, Partners, and Pregnancy 1 ( PDF file). This survey has to do with masturbation, sexual attraction and "crushes," homosexuality, dating behavior, commercial sex, coercion, sexual encounters, pregnancy outcomes and surveys for new mothers.
Sexual Practices, Partners, and Pregnancy - Dating
2) Sexual Practices, Partners, and Pregnancy 2 ( PDF file). This survey continues from the section on pregancy outcomes and addresses questions having to do with issues surrounding a single - or multiple - births.
Sexual Practices, Partners, and Pregnancy - Pregnancy Outcomes
3) Sexual Practices, Partners, and Pregnancy 3 ( PDF file). This survey asks questions to extend the first survey and focuses on: commercial sex, coercion, and other sexual encounters.
Sexual Practices, Partners, and Pregnancy - Sex Acts
Surveys on Contraceptive Use
These 2 surveys have to do with attitudes toward the use of contraceptives and deal with intimate subjects. Proceed with caution and look for the safest place for teens to respond to this survey. Please assure them as well that that this information will NOT be used against any individual, but rather as an information-gathering exercise in order to stem the tide of HIV and AIDS.
Please SEND these surveys to us EITHER by email to this address: (hiv@teacherswithoutborders.org) OR post your responses to your Personal File Storage. If you choose to post your responses to your Personal File Storage, please name them correctly. Example: Survey 1, Survey 2, Survey 3, etc.
Survey 1: Knowledge and Attitudes
Survey 2: Contraceptive Use
Surveys on Attitudes toward STDs and HIV/AIDS
These 3 surveys have to do with attitudes toward the use of contraceptives and deal with intimate subjects. Proceed with caution and look for the safest place for teens to respond to this survey. Please assure them as well that that this information will NOT be used against any individual, but rather as an information-gathering exercise in order to stem the tide of HIV and AIDS.
Survey 1: Knowledge and myths
Survey 2: Background and practices
Survey 3: Communication and education
Surveys on Health Seeking Behaviors
These 2 surveys must be conducted in an honest, confidential atmosphere. Students must be assured that the information collected SHALL NOT be used against individuals, but as a measure to assess the ingredients of a successful program to stem the tide HIV-AIDS in their community.
Survey 1: Access to Healthcare
Survey 2: Motivation and willingness to pay
Motivation and willingness to pay
Surveys on Reproductive Health
These 2 surveys must be conducted in an honest, confidential atmosphere. Students must be assured that the information collected SHALL NOT be used against individuals. No information will be used against anyone else they mention. All of these surveys are only a general measure of how a given community can assess the knowledge and behavior base of a community. With good information in hand, then a community can build the kind of successful program that will stem the tide of HIV-AIDS in their community.
Survey 1: Reproductive Health Knowledge
Survey 2: Self Awareness
Surveys on Social Norms and Gender Roles
These 3 surveys must be conducted in an honest, confidential atmosphere. Students must be assured that the information collected SHALL NOT be used against individuals. No information will be used against anyone else they mention. All of these surveys are only a general measure of how a given community can assess the knowledge and behavior base of a community. With good information in hand, then a community can build the kind of successful program that will stem the tide of HIV-AIDS in their community.
There is NO intention to tell a community that their cultural traditions are wrong or bad. Rather, it is our intention to provide the most respectful ways of providing empowering information that can save lives. It is our intention that the surveys be used in that spirit.
Survey 1: Social Norms and Gender Roles
S ocial Norms and Gender Roles
Survey 2: Taboos and Customs
Survey 3: Peer Influence
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