Development and validation of a sexual and reproductive health knowledge scale

The purpose of this study was to develop a reliable and valid instrument measure primary school students’ sexual reproductive health (SRH) knowledge. measures knowledge in four domains: i) puberty; ii) human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) sexually transmitted diseases; iii) prevention child abuse; iv) reproduction systems. All items the were reviewed screened by experts before they administered 125 five students. instrument’s dimensionality, fit statistics, hierarchical ordering item difficulty, person separation reliability assessed using rasch measurement model (RMM). results showed that demonstrated unidimensionality, exhibited wide range difficulty level. Misfitting removed from questionnaire, remaining 36 retained. RMM outputs good item’s (.97) with high index (5.52). However, (.79) (1.94) slightly recommended value. Overall, show developed can be used confidence assess among students Malaysia.