Background

To establish national prevalence of child maltreatment, reliable, valid and contextually appropriate measurement is needed. This paper outlines the refinement, adaptation and testing of child maltreatment sections of the Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire (JVQ)-R2 for use in the Australian context.

Methods

Three phases were undertaken: 1) Conceptual analysis of the five forms of child maltreatment (physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional or psychological abuse, neglect, and experience of domestic violence), item mapping and review, item development, and independent expert review; 2) Cognitive testing with members of the general population, and individuals who have experienced maltreatment; and 3) Pilot testing and quantitative psychometric assessment with a random sample of Australians aged 16–65+ years.

Results

The final measure included a total of 17 child maltreatment screener items, assessing Physical Abuse (2 items), Sexual abuse (5 items (including 2 non-contact items and 3 contact items), Emotional Abuse (3 items), Neglect (3 items), and Experience of Domestic Violence (4 items). Screener items were also included on corporal punishment (1 item), and internet sexual victimization (2 items). The final 17-item revised JVQ had high face and conceptual validity and good internal reliability (α = 0.86 and Ω = 0.87). Test re-test reliability was moderate to high for individual screeners ranging from k = 0.45 to 0.89.

Conclusions

Results indicate the Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire-R2: Adapted Version (Australian Child Maltreatment Study) is a suitable instrument for assessing population-wide prevalence of maltreatment. It is congruent with conceptual models of maltreatment and shows good reliability and validity in this Australian sample.

中文翻译：

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改编和验证青少年受害问卷-R2 用于澳大利亚儿童虐待的全国研究

背景

要确定全国虐待儿童的流行率，需要进行可靠、有效且适合具体情况的测量。本文概述了青少年受害问卷 (JVQ)-R2 中儿童虐待部分的改进、改编和测试，以供在澳大利亚使用。

方法

进行了三个阶段：1）五种形式的儿童虐待（身体虐待、性虐待、情感或心理虐待、忽视和家庭暴力经历）的概念分析、项目映射和审查、项目开发和独立专家审查；2) 对普通人群和遭受过虐待的个人进行认知测试；3) 对 16-65 岁以上的澳大利亚人随机抽样进行试点测试和定量心理测量评估。

结果

最终措施包括总共 17 个儿童虐待筛查项目，评估身体虐待（2 个项目）、性虐待（5 个项目（包括 2 个非接触项目和 3 个接触项目）、情感虐待（3 个项目）、忽视（3 个项目） ), and Experience of Domestic Violence (4 items). Screener items is also included on corporal punishment (1 item), and internet sexual victimization (2 items). 最终的 17 项修订后的 JVQ 具有较高的面子和概念效度以及良好的内部效度可靠性（α = 0.86 和 Ω = 0.87）。对于从k = 0.45 到 0.89的个人筛选器，测试重新测试可靠性从中等到高 。

结论

结果表明，青少年受害问卷-R2：改编版（澳大利亚儿童虐待研究）是评估全人群虐待流行率的合适工具。它与虐待的概念模型一致，并在这个澳大利亚样本中显示出良好的信度和效度。