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CHILD ABUSE & NEGLECT
Volume 27, Issue 2, Pages 169-190Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0145-2134(02)00541-0
Keywords
child abuse; neglect; measures; validity
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- NIDA NIH HHS [DA-01070-28] Funding Source: Medline
- NIMH NIH HHS [K20MH01106] Funding Source: Medline
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Objective: The goal of this study was to develop and validate a short form of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (the CTQ-SF) as a screening measure for maltreatment histories in both clinical and nonreferred groups. Method: Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses of the 70 original CTQ items were used to create a 28-item version of the scale (25 clinical items and three validity items) and test the measurement invariance of the 25 clinical items across four samples: 378 adult substance abusing patients from New York City, 396 adolescent psychiatric inpatients, 625 substance abusing individuals from southwest Texas, and 579 individuals from a normative community sample (combined N = 1978). Results: Results showed that the CTQ-SF's items held essentially the same meaning across all four samples (i.e., measurement invariance). Moreover, the scale demonstrated good criterion-related validity in a subsample of adolescents on whom corroborative data were available. Conclusions: These findings support the viability of the CTQ-SF across diverse clinical and nonreferred populations. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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