TY - JOUR
PY - 2015//
TI - Acute stress among adolescents and female rape victims measured by ASC-Kids: a pilot study
JO - Nordic journal of psychiatry
A1 - Nilsson, Daniel
A1 - Nordenstam, Carin
A1 - Green, Sara
A1 - Wetterhall, Annika
A1 - Lundin, Tom
A1 - Svedin, Carl Göran
SP - 539
EP - 545
VL - 69
IS - 7
N2 - BACKGROUND: Rape is considered a stressful trauma and often with durable consequences. How the aftermath of rape is for young adolescents' girls considering acute stress is an overlooked field and remains to be studied. Aims: In this study, we wanted to investigate acute stress among adolescent victims of rape and the psychometric properties of the Acute Stress Checklist for Children (ASC-Kids).
METHODS: A clinical sample (n = 79) of raped girls, 13-17 years old who had turned to a special rape victim unit for treatment, answered the ASC-Kids. ASC-Kids was also given to a group of minor stressed, non-raped adolescents in the same age range (n = 154) together with the University of California at Los Angeles Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Reaction Index (UCLA PTSD RI), and the Sense of Coherence Scale 13 (SOC-13).
RESULTS: The scores from the groups were compared and showed significant differences in mean values on all the diagnostic criteria of acute stress disorder. In the clinical group, 36.7% obtained full ASD criteria. ASC-Kids could discriminate well between groups. Cronbach's alpha was found to be excellent, and the correlation between the UCLA PTSD RI and ASC-Kids found to be good; both ASC-Kids and UCLA PTSD RI had a good and moderate negative correlation with SOC-13.
CONCLUSION: Adolescent female rape victims were shown to have a very high level of acute stress, and the ASC-Kids was found to have sound psychometrics and can be a valuable screening instrument to support clinicians in their assessments of an indication of adolescents after potentially stressful events such as rape. Language: en
LA - en
SN - 0803-9488
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/08039488.2015.1013056
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