Zhang Jiamei, Wu Zhipeng, Chen Min, Gao Yan, Liu Zhening, Long Yicheng, Chen Xudong
Department of Psychiatry, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.
National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Front Psychol. 2024 Aug 23;15:1384807. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1384807. eCollection 2024.
The 33-item Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ-33) is a recently developed tool expanded from the 28-item Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ-28) to assess childhood trauma events, which showed good test-retest reliability over 2 weeks. However, little is known regarding the factor structure and long-term test-retest reliability of the CTQ-33. To fill such a gap, this study investigated the factorial validity of the CTQ-33 and test-retest reliability of the scale over a relatively long interval of 1 year. Data on demographics, the CTQ-33 scores, and mental health statuses such as depressive/anxiety symptoms were collected in Chinese adolescents ( = 188) twice across a one-year period. Results of the confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) revealed that the Chinese version of CTQ-33 has close factor validity when compared to the original CTQ-28 in college students. Furthermore, the total and most subscale scores of the CTQ-33 have fair to good test-retest reliability (intra-class correlation coefficients >0.6 for the total score, and > 0.4 for most subscales), except for the physical abuse subscale. Moreover, we replicated previous findings of significant positive relationships between levels of different childhood trauma subtypes using the CTQ-33. These findings provide initial evidence supporting that the CTQ-33 is overall reliable to assess childhood traumatic events in adolescents over relatively long intervals.
33项儿童创伤问卷（CTQ - 33）是一种最近开发的工具，它是在28项儿童创伤问卷（CTQ - 28）的基础上扩展而来，用于评估儿童创伤事件，该问卷在2周内显示出良好的重测信度。然而，关于CTQ - 33的因子结构和长期重测信度知之甚少。为了填补这一空白，本研究调查了CTQ - 33的因子效度以及该量表在长达1年的相对较长时间间隔内的重测信度。在一年的时间里，对188名中国青少年进行了两次数据收集，内容包括人口统计学数据、CTQ - 33得分以及抑郁/焦虑症状等心理健康状况。验证性因子分析（CFA）结果显示，与大学生中原始的CTQ - 28相比，中文版CTQ - 33具有相近的因子效度。此外，CTQ - 33的总分和大多数子量表得分具有较好至良好的重测信度（组内相关系数总分>0.6，大多数子量表>0.4），身体虐待子量表除外。此外，我们使用CTQ - 33重复了先前关于不同儿童创伤亚型水平之间存在显著正相关关系的研究结果。这些发现提供了初步证据，支持CTQ - 33在相对较长时间间隔内评估青少年儿童创伤事件总体上是可靠的。
