Abstract

VALENCIA LARA, Carolina et al. Design of the alcohol consumption beliefs questionnaire for college students. Diversitas [online]. 2009, vol.5, n.2, pp.337-347. ISSN 1794-9998.

The purpose of present study was to design and validate of Alcohol Beliefs Questionnaire in adolescents universitaries; this instrument was applicated to the nonrandom sample was conformed by 240 young's between the 16 and the 25 years university students at Bogota city. The design of Questionnaire is based on the Health Belief Model and include theirs components: perceived risk and vulnerability, subjective norms, perceived barriers, perceived benefits and cues action. The results showed that the instrument has a good reliability and validity. Present description the results with sample include. Finally it is discussed the study limitations, for instance, althougth, it is recommended further applications of the instrument with other groups.

Keywords : Health Belief Model; alcohol belief; alcohol comsuptions and youngs.

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