Validación de la versión española del Childhood Trauma Questionnaire-Short Form en Chile, en una muestra de pacientes con depresión clínica

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  • Alex Behn
  • Paul A Vöhringer
  • Pablo Martínez
  • Ana Paula Domínguez
  • Arantza González
  • María I Carrasco
  • Sergio Gloger Psicomédica

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Child Abuse, Depressive Disorder, Psychological Tests, Validation Study

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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 ?) 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.

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2020-03-18

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Behn, A., Vöhringer, P. A., Martínez, P., Domínguez, A. P., González, A., Carrasco, M. I., & Gloger, S. (2020). Validación de la versión española del Childhood Trauma Questionnaire-Short Form en Chile, en una muestra de pacientes con depresión clínica. Revista Médica De Chile, 148(3). Recuperado a partir de https://revistamedicadechile.cl/index.php/rmedica/article/view/8085

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