Validación de la versión en español del Childhood Trauma Questionnaire-Short Form en Chile, en una muestra de pacientes con depresión clínica

• Alex Behn ; Paul A. Vöhringer ^[1] ; Pablo Martínez ^[2] ; Ana Paula Domínguez ; Arantza González ; María I. Carrasco ; Sergio Gloger ^[3]
  1. [1] Tufts Medical Center

     Tufts Medical Center

     City of Boston, Estados Unidos

     
  2. [2] Universidad de Santiago de Chile

     Universidad de Santiago de Chile

     Santiago, Chile

     
  3. [3] Universidad de Chile

     Universidad de Chile

     Santiago, Chile

     

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• Localización: Revista Médica de Chile, ISSN-e 0034-9887, Vol. 148, Nº. 3, 2020, págs. 336-343
• Idioma: español
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Validation of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire-Short Form in Chile
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  • Background: Childhood Trauma Questionnaire-Short Form (CTQ-SF) is an instrument to assess child abuse and neglect Aim: to adapt and confirm the psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the CTQ-SF in Chile. Material and Methods: The CTQ-SF was applied to 89 clinically depressed subjects (77.5% women) who consulted at an outpatient mental health clinic. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), reliability (Cronbach’s α) tests, and convergent validity analyses with clinical markers of complex depression were carried out. Results: The Chilean version of the CTQ-SF demonstrated an acceptable fit to a five-factor model, with adequate psychometric properties. The CFA revealed that a better fit to a five-factor model would be achieved after elimination of two items from the physical neglect scale, the less reliable scale of the questionnaire. The physical abuse scale discriminated between patients with a complex depression versus non-complex depression, and all the CTQ-SF’s scales discriminated between patients with high suicide risk and/or history of psychiatric admissions versus those patients without this background. Conclusions: the Chilean version of the CTQ-SF shows evidence of structural and discriminant validity, and reliability, in a clinical sample. Better alternatives to specifically assess the physical neglect construct should be developed.