Development of a Short Trauma Screening Tool (STST) to Measure Child Trauma Symptoms: Establishing Content Validity

Autor/inn/en	Maguire, Laura L.; Hirsh, Estelle; Allison, Jeroan J.; Forkey, Heather C.
Titel	Development of a Short Trauma Screening Tool (STST) to Measure Child Trauma Symptoms: Establishing Content Validity
Quelle	In: Journal of Applied Research on Children, 9 (2018) 1, Artikel 3 (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2155-5834
Schlagwörter	Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Trauma; Child Health; Screening Tests; Test Construction; Pediatrics; Child Behavior; Test Items; Aggression; Psychological Patterns; Anxiety; Fear; Sexuality; Physical Health; Depression (Psychology); Mental Disorders; Individual Characteristics; Child Behavior Checklist + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Screening-Verfahren; Testaufbau; Klinische Sozialpädiatrie; Test content; Testaufgabe; Angst; Furcht; Sexualität; Gesundheitszustand; Mental illness; Geisteskrankheit; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal
Abstract	Purpose: The purpose of the study was to identify major symptom domain variables common to child trauma and create a prototype short trauma symptom screening tool (STST) intended for use in pediatric medical settings. Methods: This manuscript describes the first two phases of an on-going prospective mixed-method instrument development study. Phase 1 exploratory factor analysis was conducted with an archived LONGSCAN CBCL dataset to: (1) identify behavioral symptoms endorsed by children with known trauma exposure; and (2) generate a preliminary STST item pool. During Phase 2, researchers convened an expert panel (N = 10) and conducted Content Validity Index (CVI) procedures with the 20-item preliminary STST item pool, to further inform item retention, elimination and modification for an updated prototype STST. Findings: Expert quantitative scores yielded a CVI of 0.90 for the overall preliminary STST. The first two phases of this study assisted researchers with identifying 12 items that represent nine child trauma symptom domain variables, which include: (1) aggression/anger; (2) anxiety/fear; (3) sexual concerns; (4) elimination concerns; (5) somatic concerns; (6) depression; (7) dissociation; (8) physical acting out; and (9) dysregulation. Conclusions: The first two phases of STST development resulted in development of a brief, empirically-derived prototype screening tool that features 12 items operationalizing nine domains of child trauma symptoms. Developers can now advance to the next phase of STST development; feasibility assessment and psychometric testing. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01