@article{ref1,
title="Agreement between hospitalized adolescents' self-reports of maltreatment and witnessed home violence and clinician reports and medical records",
journal="Comprehensive psychiatry",
year="1999",
author="Winegar, R. K. and Lipschitz, D. S.",
volume="40",
number="5",
pages="347-352",
abstract="Seventy-one consecutive psychiatrically hospitalized adolescents (34 males and 37 females) were systematically asked about their experiences of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and witnessing home violence using a reliable 46-item self-report measure of maltreatment, the Traumatic Events Questionnaire-Adolescent Version (TEQ-A). Subjects' responses were compared with a &quot;best-estimate&quot; source consisting of data from child protective service and police reports, medical records, and clinician interviews. Rates of agreement varied from 88% (kappa value [kappa] = .75) for sexual abuse, to 83% (kappa = .65) for physical abuse, to 75% (kappa = .49) for witnessing home violence. Disclosures of maltreatment were not significantly influenced by the gender, age, educational level, or ethnicity of the adolescent. Disclosures were highest for sexual abuse (86%) and lowest for witnessing home violence (68%). The results show that psychiatrically hospitalized adolescents' self-reports of maltreatment experiences generally concur very well with best-estimate sources.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0010-440X",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}