Injury and Child Maltreatment Section, Health Surveillance and Epidemiology Division, Public Health Agency of Canada.
Child Abuse Negl. 2011 Oct;35(10):767-82. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2011.04.011. Epub 2011 Oct 20.
Emotional/psychological child maltreatment (ECM) is a major public health problem with serious consequences including emotional and behavioral problems. Nevertheless, ECM is an understudied area.
The aims of this review are to identify measures of ECM and to evaluate their psychometric properties and utilities. We provide a summary of ECM measures that have been tested for their reliability and validity, evaluate the quality of these assessments and suggest directions for future research.
We searched PsycINFO and Medline databases from 2000 to 2010 in addition to a hand search of retrieved references; 2344 were identified and the abstracts reviewed independently by two authors to identify relevant articles. Using pre-established criteria, 144 of those articles were selected and reviewed in full to assess whether the instruments included a separate measure of ECM and its psychometric properties.
Forty-five articles examining 33 measures met the inclusion criteria and were selected for further review. The majority of measures demonstrated acceptable reliability; fewer measures had evaluated one or more types of validity.
Both reliability and validity testing are required in order to establish more accurate measures of ECM.
Reliable and valid measures are necessary to enhance our limited knowledge about the distribution, determinants and consequences of ECM.
情感/心理儿童虐待（ECM）是一个主要的公共卫生问题，具有严重的后果，包括情绪和行为问题。然而，ECM 是一个研究不足的领域。
本综述的目的是确定 ECM 的测量方法，并评估其心理测量特性和实用性。我们提供了经过可靠性和有效性测试的 ECM 测量方法的摘要，评估这些评估的质量，并为未来的研究提出方向。
我们搜索了 2000 年至 2010 年的 PsycINFO 和 Medline 数据库，以及检索到的参考文献的手动搜索；共确定了 2344 篇文章，由两名作者独立审查摘要，以确定相关文章。使用预先确定的标准，选择了其中 144 篇文章进行全文审查，以评估这些工具是否包括 ECM 的单独测量及其心理测量特性。
45 篇文章共 33 个指标符合纳入标准，被选为进一步审查。大多数测量方法的可靠性都可以接受；较少的测量方法评估了一种或多种有效性类型。
为了建立更准确的 ECM 测量方法，需要进行可靠性和有效性测试。
可靠和有效的测量方法是增强我们对 ECM 的分布、决定因素和后果的有限知识的必要条件。
