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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: AIDS Behav. 2013 Jul;17(6):1915–1925. doi: 10.1007/s10461-013-0475-3

Table 1.

CHAT Concepts and Measures Being Developed

Concept Measures
Activities

  1. Time use questions

  2. Memberships and social activities as competing demands and as resources; and perhaps summary scales on extent of involvement in pro-social and in risk-inducing groups

  3. Helping others (What; for whom; in relation to changing what?
Intersubjective Exchange

  1. Norm scales that summarize family, peer, neighbor and partner expressions of approval or disapproval about each of several risk variables (drug use, number of sex partners, appropriate characteristics of sex partners types, group sex participation; and, for gay men/MSM, peer norms about sex or “partying” with women norms)

  2. Norms scales on hostility versus support (by neighbors and by family?) for drug users; sex workers; people who have multiple sex partners; MSM.

  3. For those who attend multi-person drug using and/or sex events, scales describing the norms they perceive as operative at these events

  4. For those who attend multi-person drug using and/or sex events, items on the extent to which the events they attend have people who take on roles such as “condom enforcer” or “order keeper.”
Self as subjective process

  1. The extent of normative disjuncture (rejection, acceptance, creative reinterpretation) of external norms expressed by others about: 1. drug use, 2. appropriate number of sex partners, 3. having same-sex or opposite-sex partners, 4. characteristics of appropriate partners (of different types), 5. group sex participation

  2. For drug users, single-item norm items and a summary scale about whom to use (inject) drugs with under different conditions (such as withdrawal, drug famines, other person is in withdrawal, as well as “normal” situations)

  3. Scales or vignettes to measure adherence to altruistic, solidaristic, competitive or hostile cultural orientations towards others.

  4. Cultural themes: Extent to which one reacts to situations in terms of traditional norms of what is proper; empathy with others’ need to do what is necessary to survive in this society; and/or in terms of supporting needed social struggle and solidarity.

  5. How they feel and react when their own dignity is denied (eg., when experiencing discrimination in employment or health care settings or when somebody verbally demeans them because they have become poor or inject drugs.)

  6. How they feel and react when someone attacks someone else’s dignity?