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. 2015 Sep 2;4(3):e106. doi: 10.2196/resprot.3440

Table 3.

Participant responses to monthly survey items designed to evaluate website development goals and internal consistency (alpha) of composite measures.a

Construct Month 1 Month 2 Month 3 Month 4

α Mean (SD) α Mean (SD) α Mean (SD) α Mean (SD)
Dose received (exposure)






Perceived engagement (scale 0-2)b .55 1.18 (0.30) .67 1.17 (0.36) .74 1.03 (0.39) .57 1.14 (0.31)

Encouragement of condom use .93 4.52 (0.83) .88 4.63 (0.56) .85 4.59 (0.58) .92 4.39 (0.85)

Condom use normativec .75 3.51 (0.57) .83 3.61 (0.74)

Responsiveness to barriers







Teens on website .77 2.56 (1.09) .80 2.67 (1.15) .75 2.62 (1.09) .79 2.79 (1.12)


Health educators .80 3.16 (1.20) .82 3.35 (1.10) .71 3.30 (1.07) .76 3.46 (1.05)
Dose received (satisfaction)






Comfort on websited .65 4.21 (0.86) .66 4.24 (0.81) .67 4.08 (0.89) .61 4.01 (0.94)

Perceived privacy n/a 4.81 (0.51) n/a 4.83 (0.63)

Accessibility/ease of use (scale 0-2)b .59 1.75 (0.28) .70 1.77 (0.30)

Personal relevance of content .71 3.37 (0.72) .73 3.35 (0.72) .82 3.37 (0.89) .77 3.42 (0.77)

Credibility of teens on websitec n/a 3.50 (0.80) n/a 3.49 (0.81)

Credibility of people in videosc n/a 4.24 (0.81) n/a 4.15 (0.85)

Credibility of health educatorsc .85 4.52 (0.67) .77 4.53 (0.64)

Respect for autonomy by health educatorsc








How much were health educators...





Leaving out information to get you to do what they want? n/a 1.64 (1.26) n/a 1.70 (1.19)


Trying to get you to do what they want? n/a 2.93 (1.12) n/a 2.85 (1.24)


Trying to help you do what you want? n/a 3.76 (0.94) n/a 3.79 (0.87)

a Responses are presented by end-of-month survey, collapsing across cohort. Dashes indicate that a construct was not assessed as part of a particular survey. When a single item was used to assess a construct, n/a (for not applicable) is indicated in lieu of the internal consistency (alpha).

b Perceived engagement and accessibility/ease of use were assessed using a 3-point Likert scale (0-2). Other constructs were assessed using a 5-point Likert scale (1-5).

c Participants were asked to think across the past 2 months.

d The correlation between these 2 items is presented instead of the internal consistency (alpha).