Child PTSD Symptom Scale (CPSS)
Information about Measure | |
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First Name | Brandon |
Last Name | Kohrt |
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Brandon_Kohrt | |
Affiliation | The George Washington University |
Other means of contacting author (e.g., website, Academia.edu, ResearchGate) | — |
Mental health assessment tool that was adapted/developed/validated | Child PTSD Symptom Scale (CPSS) |
Mental health condition assessed | Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders |
Idiom of distress included, if any | Not Applicable |
Lifestage of interest | Childhood or Adolescence |
Age range (age – age) | 11-15 years old |
Country or countries where tool was developed/adapted/validated | Nepal |
Language(s) of the adapted/developed/validated tool | Nepali |
Clinical or community sample? | Community |
Subpopulation in which tool was developed/validated (e.g., tool was developed and tested among middle-class women)? | Schoolchildren in 6th or 7th grade, many of whom may have experienced war-related trauma. This tool was developed through collaborations with local health workers and psychosocial counselors, and tested on 162 Nepali children. |
Development procedures | Culturally adapted, validated, and locally developed |
If validated, what was the gold standard? | Kiddie Scale for Affective Disorders and Schnizophrenea (K-SADS) and GAPD |
Description of other development procedures, if applicable | — |
Cronbach’s alpha | 0.86 |
Sensitivity | 0.68 |
Spec | 0.73 |
Other information about tool (e.g., additional psychometrics [NPV, PPV, Youden’s index, diagnostic odds ratio]) | Additional psychometric properties evaluated- PPV:0.35, NPV:0.92, AUC=0.77, psychometric properties for each item are included in the cited publication |
Links to development/adaptation/validation studies and/or previous studies using the tool | Kohrt, B. A., Jordans, M. J. D., Tol, W. A., Luitel, N. P., Maharjan, S. M., & Upadhaya, N. (2011). Validation of cross-cultural child mental health and psychosocial research instruments: adapting the Depression Self-Rating Scale and Child PTSD Symptom Scale in Nepal. BMC Psychiatry, 11(1), 127. http://doi.org/10.1186/1471-244X-11-127 |
Notes when administering the tool | The tool should be administered orally by a trained research assistant. This tool aims to estimate the prevalence of MHPS-related disability among children. Based off of this study, the suggested cut-off for diagnosis identified is a score of greater than or equal to 20. |