Psychometric properties of the Children’s Revised Impact of Events Scale (CRIES) with Bangladeshi children and adolescents

Abstract

Identification of possible cases suffering post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is important, especially in developing countries where traumatic events are typically prevalent. The Children’s Revised Impact of Events Scale is a reliable and valid measure that has two brief versions (13 items and 8 items) to assess reactions to traumatic events among young people. The current study evaluated the psychometric properties of both versions of the CRIES in a sample of 1,342 children and adolescents aged 9–17 years (M = 12.3 years, SD = 2.12) recruited from six districts of Bangladesh. A sub-group of 120 children from four schools was re-tested on the measures within 3.5 weeks. Confirmatory factor analysis supported factor structures similar to those found in other studies for both versions of the CRIES. Multiple group confirmatory factor analysis showed gender and age-group differences within the sample, supporting established age and gender differences in prevalence of PTSD symptoms. Analyses also indicated moderate to excellent internal consistency and test-retest reliability and clear discriminant and convergent validity. These data support use of both the CRIES-13 and CRIES-8 to provide quick and psychometrically sound assessment of symptoms of PTSD among children and adolescents from Bangla-speaking communities.

Psychometric properties of two measures of childhood internalizing problems in a Bangladeshi sample

“…Cronbach's alpha for the total scale is high (.80) and is acceptable for the sub-scales of intrusion (.70), avoidance (.73), and arousal (.60) (Smith et al, 2003). Cronbach's alpha for the scale was .75 with a large Bangladeshi children sample (see, Deeba, Rapee, & Prvan, 2014). Examples of items include: Do you think about it even when you don't mean to, Do you try to remove it from your memory, and Do you have difficulties paying attention or concentrating.…”

Avaliação do impacto de acontecimentos traumáticos na adolescência: validação da Impact of Event Scale-Revised

“…Esses resultados estão de acordo com outros estudos acerca da estrutura multidimensional da IES-R (Andrews et al, 2004;Beck et al, 2008;Deeba et al, 2014), sugerindo a necessidade de encontrar um suporte empírico robusto, com amostras representativas para os componentes de intrusão, hiperativação e evitamento da IES-R.…”

“…Neste estudo, o sexo parece ter um efeito na percepção do acontecimento, sendo que, nos adolescentes, as experiências indutoras de vergonha tendem a ter um maior impacto traumá-tico (com características de evitamento, intrusão e hiperativação) nas mulheres. A literatura corrobora esses resultados, mostrando que o sexo feminino apresenta maior risco do que o masculino para desenvolver sintomas traumáticos e perturbação pós-estresse traumático (Deeba et al, 2014;Olff, Langeland, Draijer, & Gersons, 2007;Yule et al 1994). …”

“…Mais recentemente, foi desenvolvida uma versão para crianças a partir dos oito anos de idade, designada "Children's Impact of Event Scale", constituída por 13 itens e três subescalas (evitamento, intrusão, hiperativação) (Deeba, Rapee, & Prvan, 2014;Smith, Perrin, Dyregrov, & Yule, 2003).…”

Children's Reactions to Flood Disaster in Kashmir

“…[ 13 14 15 ] The validity of CRIES-8 has been reported satisfactory with a cut-off score of 17. [ 16 17 ] To gain an in-depth understanding of children's reactions to the disaster, interviews were conducted focusing on their experience of fear, immediate responses, and coping strategies.…”