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Attitudes Toward Condom Use

Abbreviation

ATCU

Description

This is a 13-item subscale from the Sexual Risks Scale (DeHart & Birkimer, 1997) to assess participants’ attitudes toward condom use. The subscale was developed to reliably and validly measure variables hypothesized to be influential in predicting HIV sexual risk behaviors.