Psychometric properties of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire-Short Form (CTQ-SF) in Korean patients with schizophrenia

Childhood trauma associates with clinical features of schizophrenia in a sample of Chinese inpatients

“…Significant correlations between CTQ-SF score and PTSD symptoms were found in the current study, which is consistent with the findings that found abuse and neglect were significantly correlated with PTSD symptoms in samples with psychosis (Bernstein et al, 2003;Kim et al, 2013). Similarly, we found significant correlation between trauma and anxiety symptoms in the current study, consistent with findings reported by several other studies in non-schizophrenic samples (Heim and Nemeroff, 2001;Yehuda et al, 2001).…”

“…Second, 71.7% of this sample reported PN in childhood, followed by EN, SA, EA, and PA. This rank order was similar to that reported in the general and other clinical populations in China, South Korea, and Western countries (Akyuz et al, 2005;Kim et al, 2013;Zhao et al, 2004).…”

“…Each subscale has five items; a three-item Minimization-Denial subscale was included to check for extreme response bias (Bernstein and Fink, 1998). The CTQ-SF has been translated into various languages, and has demonstrated good validity and reliability as a measure for childhood trauma in schizophrenia samples (Kim et al, 2013). The Chinese version of the CTQ-SF has been shown to have good reliability and validity in Chinese adolescents (Zhao et al, 2005).…”

Risk‐Related and Protective Correlates of Nonsuicidal Self‐Injury and Co‐Occurring Suicide Attempts among Incarcerated Women

“…Subscales assess childhood physical/emotional abuse, sexual abuse, and physical neglect, as well as perceived emotional support. For the present sample, internal consistencies were high for physical/emotional abuse (α = 0.91), emotional support (α = 0.95), and sexual abuse (α = 0.97), but marginal for physical neglect (α = 0.67), consistent with other research (Kim, Bae, Han, Oh, & MacDonald, ; Paivio & Cramer, ).…”

Reliability and validity of the Korean version of the Scale for the Assessment of Thought, Language, and Communication

“…Although we could not exclude the possibility that the symptoms might actually change over that time, considering the chronically affected states of the study subjects (mean duration of illness; 21.3 years), such changes should be minimal. In addition, there is another example of a time interval of 4 weeks being used to evaluate the test-retest reliability of a self-questionnaire in Korean patients with schizophrenia [43]. Despite these limitations, our study has the value of offering evidence that the Korean version of the TLC scale is a reliable and valid psychometric tool, as well as identifying potential cut-off values for the presence of FTD or disorganized speech in schizophrenia patients.…”