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Area of Assessment
Stress & CopingAssessment Type
Patient Reported OutcomesAdministration Mode
Paper & PencilCost
FreeActual Cost
$0.00CDE Status
Not a CDE -- last searched 6/12/2023.
Not a CDE -- last searched 6/12/2023.
10 items (5 questions measuring re-experiencing and 5 questions measuring hyper-arousal)
10 minutes
Child
6 - 12
yearsAdolescent
13 - 17
yearsMartina Bailey, Doug Connelly, and Josee Pacheco (Master of Occupational Therapy students)
Faculty mentor: Danbi Lee, PhD, OTD, OTR/L
Division of Occupational Therapy, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle
None found -- last searched 6/12/2023.
Accidental injury: (Olsson et al., 2008; n = 79; mean age = 10.81 (2.42) years; length of hospital stay = 137.85 (216.33) hours; Mean Injury Severity Score = 9)
Accidental injury: (Kenardy et al., 2006; n =135; mean age = 10.8 (2.3) years; length of hospital stay = 117.2 (176.3) hours; Mean Injury Severity Score = 9))
Accidental injury: (Olsson et al., 2008)
Accidental injury: (Kenardy et al., 2006; n = 135)
Predictive Validity
Accidental injury: (Olsson et al., 2008)
Scores of children on the CTSQ by presence of PTSD symptoms and time post-injury
PTSD Status |
1 Month (M(SD)) |
6 Months (M(SD)) |
With symptoms |
6.00 (2.57) |
5.71 (2.63) |
Without symptoms |
3.24 (2.38) |
3.42 (2.49) |
|
t(77) = -3.54, p < 0.01 |
t(77) = -2.32, p < 0.5 |
Convergent Validity
Accidental injury: (Kenardy et al., 2006; n = 135)
Scale adapted from the Trauma Screening Questionnaire (TSQ) that was an excellent predictor of PTSD in adult survivors of a rail crash. Questions were reworded for children and pilot tested for comprehension. (Kenardy et al., 2006)
Internal displacement: (Sakhelashvili et al., 2018; n = 322; internally displaced children n = 161, mean age = 10.85 (0.9); non-internally displaced children n = 161, mean age = 10.94 (0.9))
Internal displacement: (Sakhelashvili et al., 2018)
Internal displacement: (Sakhelashvili et al., 2018)
Internal displacement: (Sakhelashvili et al., 2018)
Internal displacement: (Sakhelashvili et al., 2018)
Internal displacement: (Sakhelashvili et al., 2018)
Kenardy, J. A., Spence, S. H., & Macleod, A. C. (2006). Screening for posttraumatic stress disorder in children after accidental injury. Pediatrics, 118(3), 1002–1009. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2006-0406
Olsson, K. A., Kenardy, J. A., De Young, A. C., & Spence, S. H. (2008). Predicting children's post-traumatic stress symptoms following hospitalization for accidental injury: Combining the Child Trauma Screening Questionnaire and heart rate. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 22(8), 1447–1453. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2008.02.007
Sakhelashvili, I., Eliozishvili, M., Oniani, N., Darchia, N., & Bruni, O. (2018). Sleep and psycho-behavioral problems in internally displaced children in Georgia. Sleep Medicine, 50, 42–47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleep.2018.05.013
Wu, J. (2020, February 14). Child trauma screening questionnaire. The National Child Traumatic Stress Network. https://www.nctsn.org/measures/child-trauma-screening-questionnaire
We have reviewed more than 500 instruments for use with a number of diagnoses including stroke, spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury among several others.