ISPCAN Child Abuse Screening Tool Children's Version

Measuring violence against children: The adequacy of the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN) child abuse screening tool - Child version in 9 Balkan countries

“…Construct validity was adequate for a fivefactor solution with the dimensions physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, neglect and exposure to violence/witnessing violence (Chang, Lin, Chang, Tsai, & Feng, 2013). The original pilot study across eight countries found that internal reliability was adequate for most subscale except for witnessing violence (Zolotor et al, 2009). Similarly, internal reliability and criterion validity were good in a Lebanese translation of the ICAST-CH (Usta, Farver, & Danachi, 2012) and a Farsi translation of the ICAST-C .…”

“…One of the most commonly used non-proprietary measures is the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN) Child Abuse Screening Tool, the ICAST. A current child-self report version (ICAST-C), a retrospective self-report version (ICAST-R) and caregiver report version (ICAST-P) were developed following a lengthy consensus process involving a large number of experts on child maltreatment research (Dunne et al, 2009;Runyan et al, 2009;Zolotor et al, 2009). The ICAST-C was developed as a gold-standard measure of children's exposure to violence across multiple cultures and contexts.…”

“…It was specifically designed to fill the gap highlighted by the United Nations Secretary General of a shared set of definitions and research tools to be used in a global context to measure violence against children (Zolotor et al, 2009). The ICAST-C was developed by a team of international experts on child abuse research for children aged 12-17 and reviewed by many professionals from more than 40 different countries using a Delphi process.…”

“…The ICAST-C was then pilot tested in 8 countries using focus group discussions and survey methodology and then further refined. The exact procedures for the development of the ICAST-C and the pilot study can be found in the original publication (Zolotor et al, 2009). The ICAST measures the domains of physical, psychological, and contact and non-contact sexual violence and physical, medical and emotional neglect using individual acts of violence e.g.…”

“…These include 14 items on demographics, 38 items about the violence exposure in the home and 44 items on violence exposure at school or work. In the original version, these were divided into an ICAST-CH (home) and ICAST-CI (institution) and both modules can be used either together or separately (Zolotor et al, 2009). The ICAST-C has been used across many different countries and cultures ranging from low-and middle-income countries to high income countries.…”