@article{ref1,
title="Validation of the French version of the Child Posttraumatic Stress Checklist in French school-aged children",
journal="Frontiers in psychiatry",
year="2021",
author="Gindt, Morgane and Richez, Aurelien and Battista, Michèle and Fabre, Roxane and Thümmler, Susanne and Fernandez, Arnaud and Askenazy, Florence",
volume="12",
number="",
pages="678916-678916",
abstract="BACKGROUND: The child posttraumatic stress disorder checklist (CPC) updated to DSM-5 is a questionnaire aimed to assess posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in children. It is available in both parents and child versions. The back-translation method has been used for the French translation of the CPC. It has not been yet validated in French-speaking populations. The aim of this study was to assess the psychometric properties and the validity of the CPC in a sample of French-speaking schoolchildren and their parents. <br><br>METHODS: The sample was composed by 176 children outpatients implicated in the Nice terrorist attack (14 July 2016) aged 7-17 (mean = 11.68 years, SD = 2.63 months) and 122 parents. Cronbach's alpha was used to test CPC internal consistency. The Spearman-correlation coefficient was performed between the French version of the CPC and the Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia Present and Lifetime version (K-SADS-PL) to assess the convergent validity. An ROC curve was constructed to verify the validity of the cutoff scores. An evaluation of the sensitivity and specificity of each score and a comparison with the diagnosis of the K-SADS-PL were made. Finally, a principal component analysis with varimax rotation was computed to analyze the structure of the French version of the CPC. <br><br>RESULTS: Cronbach's alpha coefficient was 0.90 for child version and 0.91 for parent version of the CPC. There was a statistical correlation between the K-SADS-PL for PTSD and the total score of CPC for the child version (r = 0.62; p < 0.001) and for the parent version (r = 0.55; p < 0.001). The sensitivity and specificity of the children version with a threshold of >20 were 73.1 and 84.7%, respectively, using the K-SADS-PL as the diagnostic reference for PTSD. Concerning the parent version, using the same recommended cutoff score, the sensitivity, and specificity were 77 and 80.5%, respectively. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: The psychometric properties of the French CPC are good. This questionnaire appears to be valid and should be used in French-speaking children.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1664-0640",
doi="10.3389/fpsyt.2021.678916",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.678916"
}