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Review Questions for article
Mahat, G. Scoloveno, M., DeLeon, T, & Frenkel, J. (2008). Preliminary Evidence of an Adolescent HIV/AIDS Peer Education Program. Journal of Pediatric Nursing, 23(5), p. 358-363.
1.) What was the purpose of the study?
2.) How many students received the peer education program?
3.) What percent of the total sample received the peer education program?
4.) What type of sampling method was utilized? Was it probability or non-probability sampling?
5.) Knowledge questions were coded as answered correctly or incorrectly. This is what level of measurement?
6.) The total knowledge score could range from 0 to 33. What level of measurement is the total knowledge score?
7.) Look at Table 1. What was the cumulative percent of students who were fourteen years old or younger?
8.) Look at Table 1. What level of measurement are age, sex, ethnicity and sexually active?
9.) The fourth section of the behavioral intention questions included questions on the confidence to engage in safe sex. The items are scored on a scale from 1 to 5. This is an example of what type of measurement?
10.) The Youth Risk Behavior Survey was determined to have an internal consistency of the total knowledge questionnaire of 0.81. What does this mean?
11.) What was the mean age of the participants in the sample?
12.) Was there an equal number of male and female participants?
13.) Were the control and experimental groups similar in demographic make up?
14.) Why is that important to note?
15.) Were more males or females sexually active before the intervention?
16.) Was there a significant difference in the HIV/AIDS knowledge between adolescents’ boys and girls pre and post intervention?
17.) If a future large study reported that the educational interventions do result in a significant difference in the HIV/AIDS knowledge between adolescent boys and girls you would know that the results found in this study regarding gender differences in HIV/AIDS knowledge post intervention were an example of what type of error? What would be the most likely cause of this error?
18.) Was the percent of adolescents who planned to use a condom after the educational intervention higher or lower for the intervention group vs. the control group?
19.) Look at the percentage of adolescents who planned to use a condom and those who planned to have their partner use a condom before and after the educational information/intervention. Did both the experimental and control groups have the same response in these categories? What might be a viable explanation?
20.) Although this research did not find a significant difference between the experimental and control groups in terms of confidence to engage in safe sex, what did they determine was different about this outcome variable?
21.) Comparing the confidence to engage in safe sex between boys and girls was done using what test? Why?