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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Hisp Health Care Int. 2019 Oct 24;18(4):181–190. doi: 10.1177/1540415319883422

Table 4.

Cognitive Interviewing Results, Final Survey Items.

N Final relevant contexts/important factors affecting contraceptive decision making, based on the TPB
Initial survey items 26 Behavioral Beliefs and Attitudes:

  • Pregnancy prevention to achieve educational/career goals

  • Concern for potential side effects and future fertility
Eliminated 0
Added 1
Response scale rewording 10 Normative Beliefs and Subjective Norms:

  • Family thoughts and advice

  • Partner preferences

  • School/teacher advice (adolescents 15–18 only)

  • Friends’ advice
Minor item rewording or restructuring 20
Final survey items 27
Control Beliefs and Perceived Behavioral Control:

  • Perceived patient-provider communication; trust

  • Personal contraceptive preferences

  • Knowledge of method side effects, effectiveness

  • Access to providers

  • Insurance/financial means to afford methods

  • Discussion of options in her preferred language

  • Access to female providers

  • Confidentiality (adolescents 15–17)

  • Nonjudgmental/nondiscriminatory interactions with providers

Note. TPB = theory of planned behavior.