@article{ref1,
title="Evaluation of the Swedish version of Dissociation Questionnaire (DIS-Q), Dis-Q-Sweden, among adolescents",
journal="Journal of trauma and dissociation",
year="2006",
author="Nilsson, Daniel and Svedin, Carl-Göran",
volume="7",
number="3",
pages="65-89",
abstract="The aim of this study was to investigate the psychometric properties of the Swedish version of the Dissociation Questionnaire in a normative adolescent population and also to investigate dissociative symptoms associated with trauma including sexual and physical abuse. A normative sample of 449 adolescents between the ages of 12 and 19 and a clinical group of 74 adolescents with known experiences of trauma, sexual and/or physical abuse was given Dis-Q-Sweden. A mixed group of 22 abused and non-abused adolescents who answered Dis-Q-Sweden was also interviewed by using the Structural Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Dissociative Disorders (SCID-D). A test-retest procedure was conducted with 90 subjects from the normative group. The results showed good reliability concerning both internal consistency and test-retest stability. Validity was tested in several ways (criterion, predictive, construct and concurrent) and found to be satisfactory. Significant differences for the total sum scores of Dis-Q-Sweden were found between the normative group and the clinical group with known sexual abuse (p<0.001). The prevalence of dissociative symptoms (cut-off score>2.5) was 2.3% in the normative group and 50% in the clinical group. Dis-Q-Sweden has proven to be a screening instrument with good psychometric properties and has proven to be able to capture dissociative symptoms in adolescents with self-reported trauma and known trauma (sexual abuse).<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1529-9732",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}