TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - Validation of the childhood trauma questionnaire-short form in Chile
JO  - Revista Medica de Chile
A1  - Behn, Alex
A1  - Vöhringer, Paul A.
A1  - Martínez, Pablo
A1  - Domínguez, Ana Paula
A1  - González, Arantza
A1  - Carrasco, María I.
A1  - Gloger, Sergio
SP  - 336
EP  - 343
VL  - 148
IS  - 3
N2  - BACKGROUND: Childhood Trauma Questionnaire-Short Form (CTQ-SF) is an instrument to assess child abuse and neglect Aim: to adapt and confirm the psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the CTQ-SF in Chile.     MATERIAL AND METHODS: The CTQ-SF was applied to 89 clinically depressed subjects (77.5% women) who consulted at an outpatient mental health clinic. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), reliability (Cronbach's α) tests, and convergent validity analyses with clinical markers of complex depression were carried out.     RESULTS: The Chilean version of the CTQ-SF demonstrated an acceptable fit to a five-factor model, with adequate psychometric properties. The CFA revealed that a better fit to a five-factor model would be achieved after elimination of two items from the physical neglect scale, the less reliable scale of the questionnaire. The physical abuse scale discriminated between patients with a complex depression versus non-complex depression, and all the CTQ-SF's scales discriminated between patients with high suicide risk and/or history of psychiatric admissions versus those patients without this background.     CONCLUSIONS: the Chilean version of the CTQ-SF shows evidence of structural and discriminant validity, and reliability, in a clinical sample. Better alternatives to specifically assess the physical neglect construct should be developed.<p />  <p>Language: es</p>
LA  - es
SN  - 0034-9887
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0034-98872020000300336
ID  - ref1
ER  -