Facultad de Psicologia, Fundacion Universitaria Konrad Lorenz, Colombia.
Laboratorio de Psicometria Jose Rodriguez Valderrama, Departamento de Psicologia, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia.
Child Abuse Negl. 2024 Mar;149:106689. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.106689. Epub 2024 Feb 14.
Potential childhood traumatic experiences increase risk for mental and physical health disorders and their precise assessment can help to promote health prevention and promotion strategies for countries with limited data and measurement strategies like Colombia.
The goal of the present study is to strengthen evidence for the validity of scores from an adapted version of the Early Trauma Inventory self report-short form (ETI-SF) using Item Response Theory and by assessing factorial invariance across gender and education level.
The study assessed a total of 1909 Colombian participants (66.16 % women, 32.16 % men, 1.68 % other gender; age range 18-72 years old).
Participants answered the ETI-SF via a web-based sampling strategy.
The total scores of the scale showed good reliability coefficients (α = 0.81 and ω = 0.60). A specific analysis for the subscales showed good reliability for the emotional, physical, and sexual trauma subscales (αs and ωs >0.64), while general trauma showed lower than accepted reliability values (α =0.56 and ω = 0.37). Most of the individual items of the scale showed good calibration. The factorial invariance analysis suggests the possibility of some gender and educational differences.
The study confirms particularly high rates of potential childhood traumatic experiences in Colombia and complement data for specific trauma types. Overall, the ETI-SF is confirmed as useful for Colombia, which highlights this scale as a good tool to use for public health assessment. Future research can continue the integration of diverse methods for estimating the quality of the scale.
潜在的儿童期创伤经历会增加精神和身体健康障碍的风险，对其进行准确评估有助于促进那些数据有限且测量策略有限的国家（如哥伦比亚）的健康预防和促进策略。
本研究的目的是使用项目反应理论和评估性别和教育水平方面的因子不变性来加强适应版早期创伤清单自我报告简短形式（ETI-SF）分数的有效性证据。
本研究共评估了 1909 名哥伦比亚参与者（66.16%女性，32.16%男性，1.68%其他性别；年龄范围 18-72 岁）。
参与者通过基于网络的抽样策略回答 ETI-SF。
该量表的总分显示出良好的可靠性系数（α=0.81 和 ω=0.60）。对分量表的特定分析表明，情绪、身体和性创伤分量表具有良好的可靠性（αs 和 ωs>0.64），而一般创伤的可靠性低于可接受值（α=0.56 和 ω=0.37）。该量表的大多数项目都具有良好的校准。因子不变性分析表明存在一些性别和教育差异的可能性。
该研究证实了哥伦比亚存在特别高的潜在儿童期创伤经历率，并补充了特定创伤类型的数据。总体而言，ETI-SF 被证实对哥伦比亚有用，这突出了该量表作为公共卫生评估的良好工具。未来的研究可以继续整合各种方法来估计量表的质量。
