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. 2003 Feb;27(2):169-90.
doi: 10.1016/s0145-2134(02)00541-0.

Development and validation of a brief screening version of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire

David P Bernstein  1 , Judith A Stein, Michael D Newcomb, Edward Walker, David Pogge, Taruna Ahluvalia, John Stokes, Leonard Handelsman, Martha Medrano, David Desmond, William Zule
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Development and validation of a brief screening version of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire

David P Bernstein et al. Child Abuse Negl. 2003 Feb.

Abstract

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.

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