1. [A brief instrument for the assessment of childhood abuse and neglect: the childhood trauma screener (CTS)]
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Hans Jörgen, Grabe, Andrea, Schulz, Carsten Oliver, Schmidt, Katja, Appel, Martin, Driessen, Katja, Wingenfeld, Sven, Barnow, Carsten, Spitzer, Ulrich, John, Klaus, Berger, Heike, Wersching, and Harald J, Freyberger
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Adult ,Male ,Adolescent ,Psychometrics ,Mental Disorders ,Reproducibility of Results ,Child Abuse, Sexual ,Middle Aged ,Life Change Events ,Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic ,Young Adult ,Germany ,Surveys and Questionnaires ,Interview, Psychological ,Humans ,Mass Screening ,Female ,Gene-Environment Interaction ,Child Abuse ,Prospective Studies ,Child ,Aged - Abstract
There is a lack of a psychometrically sound screening questionnaire that assesses important dimensions of traumatic experiences during childhood and adolescence in a time-efficient way. Based on the German version of the "Childhood Trauma Questionnaire" (CTQ, 28 items) we developed a five-item self-report childhood trauma screener (CTS) that covers sexual, emotional and physical abuse and emotional and physical neglect.The data set of the SHIP-LEGEND study (n = 1668) was used to extract five items of the CTQ that optimally covered the five dimensions and showed a high correlation with the total score. In two validation samples (clinical sample [n = 211] and subjects from the BiDirect study [n = 288]) the psychometric properties of the CTS were evaluated.The correlations between the five CTS Items and the corresponding dimensions from the CTQ were r = 0.55 to 0.87 (p0.0001) within the clinical sample. Furthermore, we found high correlations (r = 0.88; p0.0001) with the total CTQ score. The internal consistency was 0.757 (Cronbachs α).The CTS is a reliable, valid and economic screener for the retrospective assessment of adverse childhood experiences especially in large epidemiological studies.
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- 2012