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Initial reliability and validity of a new retrospective measure of child abuse and neglect.
David P. Bernstein,Laura Fink,Leonard Handelsman,Jeffrey Foote,Meg Lovejoy,Katherine Wenzel,Elizabeth Sapareto,Joseph T. Ruggiero +7 more
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These findings provide strong initial support for the reliability and validity of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire, indicating that patients' reports of child abuse and neglect based on the ChildhoodTrauma Questionnaires were highly stable, both over time and across type of instruments.Abstract:
OBJECTIVE: This report presents initial findings on the reliability and validity of a new retrospective measure of child abuse and neglect, the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire. METHOD: Two hundred eighty-six drug- or alcohol-dependent patients were given the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire as part of a larger test battery, and 40 of these patients were given the questionnaire again after an interval of 2 to 6 months. Sixty-eight of the patients were also given a structured interview for child abuse and neglect, the Childhood Trauma Interview, that was developed by the authors. RESULTS: Principal-components analysis of responses on the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire yielded four rotated orthogonal factors: physical and emotional abuse, emotional neglect, sexual abuse, and physical neglect. Cronbach's alpha for the factors ranged from 0.79 to 0.94, indicating high internal consistency. The Childhood Trauma Questionnaire also demonstrated good test-retest reliability over a 2- to 6-month interval (intraclass correlation = 0.88), as well as convergence with the Childhood Trauma Interview, indicating that patients' reports of child abuse and neglect based on the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire were highly stable, both over time and across type of instruments. CONCLUSIONS: These findings provide strong initial support for the reliability and validity of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire. Language: enread more
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Development and validation of a brief screening version of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire
David P. Bernstein,Judith A. Stein,Michael D. Newcomb,Edward A. Walker,David L. Pogge,Taruna Ahluvalia,John M. Stokes,Leonard Handelsman,Martha A. Medrano,David P. Desmond,William A. Zule +10 more
TL;DR: These findings support the viability of the CTQ-SF across diverse clinical and nonreferred populations and demonstrated good criterion-related validity in a subsample of adolescents on whom corroborative data were available.
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The Long-Term Health Consequences of Child Physical Abuse, Emotional Abuse, and Neglect: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Rosana E. Norman,Munkhtsetseg Byambaa,Rumna De,Alexander Butchart,James Scott,James Scott,James Scott,Theo Vos +7 more
TL;DR: A systematic review and meta-analysis is conducted to assess the relationship between child physical abuse, emotional abuse, and neglect, and subsequent mental and physical health outcomes.
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Childhood abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction and the risk of illicit drug use: The adverse childhood experiences study
Shanta R. Dube,Vincent J. Felitti,Maxia Dong,Daniel P. Chapman,Wayne H. Giles,Robert F. Anda +5 more
TL;DR: The persistent graded relationship between the ACE score and initiation of drug use for 4 successive birth cohorts dating back to 1900 suggests that the effects of adverse childhood experiences transcend secular changes such as increased availability of drugs, social attitudes toward drugs, and recent massive expenditures and public information campaigns to prevent drug use.
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Relationship between multiple forms of childhood maltreatment and adult mental health in community respondents: results from the adverse childhood experiences study.
TL;DR: In this article, the prevalence of a history of various combinations of childhood maltreatment types (physical abuse, sexual abuse, and witnessing of maternal battering) among adult members of a health maintenance organization (HMO) was examined.
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The interrelatedness of multiple forms of childhood abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction
Maxia Dong,Robert F. Anda,Vincent J. Felitti,Shanta R. Dube,David F. Williamson,Theodore J. Thompson,Clifton M Loo,Wayne H. Giles +7 more
TL;DR: The study provides strong evidence that ACEs are interrelated rather than occurring independently, and collecting information about exposure to other ACEs is advisable for studies that focus on the consequences of a specific ACE.
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