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Ein Screeninginstrument für Missbrauch und Vernachlässigung in der Kindheit: der Childhood Trauma Screener (CTS)
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: 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. METHOD: 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. RESULTS: The correlations between the five CTS Items and the corresponding dimensions from the CTQ were r = 0.55 to 0.87 (p < 0.0001) within the clinical sample. Furthermore, we found high correlations (r = 0.88; p < 0.0001) with the total CTQ score. The internal consistency was 0.757 (Cronbachs α). CONCLUSION: 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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- Authors
- Grabe, H., Schulz, A., Schmidt, C., Appel, K., Driessen, M., Wingenfeld, K., Barnow, S., Spitzer, C., John, U., Berger, K., Wersching, H., & Freyberger, H.
- Affiliations
- Universitätsmedizin Greifswald (DE)
- Evangelisches Krankenhaus Bielefeld (DE)
- Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (DE)
- Heidelberg University (DE)
- Asklepios Fachklinikum Tiefenbrunn (DE)
- University of Münster (DE)
- ORCID
- Venue
- Psychiatrische Praxis
- Publisher
- Georg Thieme Verlag KG
- Published
- 2012-03-15
- Volume
- 39
- Issue
- 03
- Pages
- 109-115
- ISSN
- 0303-4259 (ISSN-L)
- 1439-0876
- OpenAlex
- W2418173038
- Cited by
- 170
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 1.81
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- de
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychiatrische Praxis (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PUB – Publications at Bielefeld University (Bielefeld University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Child Welfare and Adoption
- Keywords
- childhood trauma, childhood abuse, child neglect, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, physical abuse, emotional neglect, physical neglect, Childhood Trauma Questionnaire, screening tool, psychometric validation, internal consistency, adverse childhood experiences, retrospective evaluation
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Mental Disorders, Child, Child Abuse, Child Abuse, Sexual, Female, Germany, Humans, Interview, Psychological, Life Change Events, Male, Mass Screening, Middle Aged, Prospective Studies, Psychometrics, Surveys and Questionnaires, Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic, Reproducibility of Results, Young Adult, Gene-Environment Interaction
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