
These numbers correspond to truth statements, with 1 being Never True and 5 being Very Often True. Respondents are asked to give a number rating of between 1 and 5 for each statement. Who did you go to when you experienced intense moments of emotional or physical pain as a child How would you best describe your experience in your home How. There are five statements under each subscale. For each item, indicate the degree to which the statement describes your experience at each different age period. The Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ-SF) divides the 25 main items into five subscales. The Childhood Trauma Questionnaire is a brief survey of. Traumatic Antecedents Questionnaire (TAQ) This questionnaire asks you to describe experiences you may have had as a young child (ages 0 to 6), as a school age child (ages 7-12), as an adolescent (ages 13-18), and as an adult. However, the lack of strong factorial invariance indicates that it may not be equitable to compare scores between males and females, possibly indicating that the two groups do in fact interpret items differently. A fundamental psychological question concerns how we come to find meaning in traumatic experiences. The CTQ-SF was found to have a weak factorial invariance, suggesting that it may be used to make a valid comparison of scores of child abuse and neglect as a five-factor model. Almost all (98%) respondents met the criteria for at least one form of maltreatment 34.5% met criteria for all five forms (i.e., emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional neglect, physical neglect). The Trauma History Questionnaire (THQ) is a 24-item self-report measure that examines experiences with potentially traumatic events such as crime, general disaster, and sexual and physical assault using a yes/no format. The current study tests the psychometric properties of the CTQ-SF (n=397) using a sample of street youth, comparing male and female respondents.

The CTQ-SF tool is a 28-item form that takes approximately five minutes to administer. A socio-demographic questionnaire, the Childhood Trauma questionnaire (CTQ-28), the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) and the Self-reporting Questionnaire (. The Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ) and Childhood Trauma Questionnaire Short-Form (CTQ-SF) are widely used in clinical settings, community surveys and program evaluation, and provide a retrospective identification of the prevalence of child abuse and neglect.

Within the past three decades there has been sizeable growth in research examining various aspects of childhood maltreatment. The German short form of the CTQ is a reliable and valid self rating instrument to assess childhood maltreatment retrospectively.
