TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1999//
TI  - Agreement between hospitalized adolescents' self-reports of maltreatment and witnessed home violence and clinician reports and medical records
JO  - Comprehensive psychiatry
A1  - Winegar, R. K.
A1  - Lipschitz, D. S.
SP  - 347
EP  - 352
VL  - 40
IS  - 5
N2  - 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 "best-estimate" 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0010-440X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -