Development and validation of a new instrument to measure perceived risks associated with the use of tobacco and nicotine-containing products

Table 9 Convergent Validity of PRI 18-Item Health Risk Scale (CC) with Items from the Short- and Long-Term Smoking Risks Questionnaire (Spearman Correlation Coefficients, Survey 2)

	PRI-P Health Risk Scale					PRI-G Health Risk Scale
Short and Long-Term Risk Questionnaire	All (n = 773)	NS (n = 184)	FS (n = 192)	CS IQ (n = 203)	CS NIQ (n = 194)	All(n = 778)	NS(n = 192)	FS (n = 196)	CS IQ(n = 197)	CS NIQ(n = 193)
Item 1	−0.35	− 0.26	−0.40	− 0.21	− 0.21	−0.30	− 0.29	−0.29	− 0.20	−0.33
Item 2	0.33	0.34	0.28	0.24	0.35	0.39	0.26	0.45	0.31	0.45
Item 3	−0.28	−0.27	−0.34	− 0.14	−0.14	−0.29	− 0.26	−0.24	− 0.23	−0.25
Item 4	−0.28	−0.30	− 0.37	−0.10	− 0.13	− 0.28	−0.27	− 0.29	−0.24	− 0.23
Item 5	0.30	0.18	0.18	0.28	0.37	0.41	0.29	0.39	0.36	0.46

CS IQ current smokers with intention to quit, CS NIQ current smokers with no intention to quit, FS former smokers, NS never smokers, n number of study participants with both measurements, PRI-P Perceived Risk Instrument-Personal Risk, PRI-G Perceived Risk Instrument-General Risk
Item 1: There is really no risk at all for the first two years
Item 2: Every single cigarette smoked causes a little bit of harm
Item 3: Although smoking may eventually harm this person’s health, the very next single cigarette he or she smokes will probably not cause any harm
Item 4: Harmful effects of smoking rarely occur until a person has smoked steadily for many years
Item 5: Smoking at the daily rate of one package of cigarettes each day will eventually harm this person’s health

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