Validação da Escala ATSES em Adolescentes Portugueses

Abstract

Introduction: Sexual education in Portugal is now a curricular theme. There are an absence of evaluation tools designed for adolescent people. Objectives: Validate to Portuguese the Attitudes Toward Sex Education Scale (ATSES). Methods: Quantitative, descriptive and transversal study. It was observed the content, construct and concomitant validities, reliability, temporal stability. Convenience sample of 186 students, aged 12-18 years old. Retest done with 60 subjects. Results: Factorial analysis showed two factors, differently of the original three. Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin and Bartlett’s sphericity make evident the sample adequacy. Components structure explained 44,09% of data variance. Reliability presented α Cronbach between .929 and .665. Convergent validity between .581 and .455, and retest .624 and .580. Conclusions: Validity showed an instrument with 27 items, consisting in a scale of Global Attitudes, with two dimensions of Trust Attitudes and Availability Attitudes. Cross-cultural validation show an adequate measure to evaluate in Portuguese adolescents, Attitudes Toward Sex Education