Systematic review and critical appraisal of Childhood Trauma Questionnaire — Short Form (CTQ-SF)

Georgieva, Sylvia; Tomás, José M.; Navarro-Pérez, José-Javier

doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2021.105223

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“…The Childhood Trauma Questionnaire Short Form (CTQ-SF) is used to assess traumatic life experiences during childhood ( Bernstein et al, 1994 ; Georgieva et al, 2021 ). There are 28 items in the CTQ-SF, divided into the following five subscales, with five items per subscale: emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional neglect, and physical neglect.…”

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The relationship between Internet addiction and childhood trauma in adolescents: The mediating role of social support

Sheng

Yang

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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BackgroundAdolescents are at high risk of Internet addiction (IA). Previous studies have shown that the occurrence of IA may be associated with childhood trauma and social support to varying degrees. This study aimed to investigate the pathogenesis of IA in adolescents. Further, to explore the potential mediating role of social support in childhood trauma and IA. This study provides theoretical support for future interventions targeting IA in adolescents.MethodsThis study used a descriptive cross-sectional design. The Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ), Social Support Rating Scale (SSRS), and Young’s Internet Addiction Test (IAT) were used to conduct an anonymous questionnaire survey among randomly selected adolescents aged less than 18 years old in two cities in southern Anhui Province. Descriptive statistics and correlation analysis were used to test the correlation between IA and other variables. A binary logistic regression model was used to explore the influencing factors of IA. Multiple regression models were examined with process macro and bootstrapping to confirm significant mediating effects.ResultsA total of 844 adolescents, equally divided between males and females, participated in this study, and the prevalence of IA in the region was 23.0%. Through the mediation test, the direct effect of childhood trauma on IA was 0.20 (95% CI [0.12, 0.27], p < 0.001), and the mediating effect of social support on childhood trauma and IA was 0.09 (95% CI [0.06, 0.14]).ConclusionThe study showed that childhood trauma significantly affected the incidence of IA in adolescents. Social support had a significant mediating effect on childhood trauma and IA and attenuated its negative effects.

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The relationship between Internet addiction and childhood trauma in adolescents: The mediating role of social support

Sheng

Yang

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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“…Bernstein et al ( 32 ) showed good criterion validity in the development of the CTQ, and a more recent study found high convergent validity in a perinatal sample ( 63 ). Nevertheless, a review by Georgieva et al ( 64 ) concluded that further research on criterion validity for the CTQ is needed. Longitudinal studies that collect data from childhood through own motherhood would be helpful here.…”

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Early Abusive Relationships–Influence of Different Maltreatment Types on Postpartum Psychopathology and Mother-Infant Bonding in a Clinical Sample

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Postpartum psychopathology is a well-documented risk factor for impaired mother-infant bonding and thus child development. Increasingly, the focus of research in this area lies on maternal adverse childhood experiences that mothers bring into the relationship with their own baby, especially regarding the possible intergenerational transmission of traumatic experiences. Several studies showed that there is no direct link between child maltreatment and mother-infant bonding as one part of mother-child relationship, but that this link is mediated by postpartum psychopathology. To date, few studies examined differential effects between sexual, physical, and emotional abuse, and physical and emotional neglect, especially in a clinical sample. The aim of this study is to investigate whether the relationship between child maltreatment, psychopathology, and mother-infant bonding can be found for different forms of child maltreatment in patients of a mother-baby unit. Our sample consisted of 330 mothers of a mother-baby-unit in a psychosomatic clinic, who filled out self-report measures at time of admission. Mothers reported on maternal child maltreatment history with the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire, on current psychopathology with the Brief Symptom Inventory, and on mother-infant bonding with the Postpartum Bonding Questionnaire. Mediation analyses were performed with psychopathology as mediator, child maltreatment history as independent, and mother-infant bonding as dependent variable. There was no total effect of child maltreatment on mother-infant bonding. However, there were significant indirect effects of child maltreatment in general (ab = 0.09) and of the various forms of child maltreatment on mother-infant bonding via psychopathology (0.16 ≤ ab ≤ 0.34). The strongest effect was found for emotional abuse. After controlling for psychopathology, the direct effect of physical abuse on mother-infant bonding presented as a negative significant effect. This indicates that the more severe the physical abuse experienced, the better the self-reported bonding. A similar, but non-significant trend was found for sexual abuse. Our findings highlight the importance of assessing neglect forms of child maltreatment as well as abuse in women during the perinatal period. It further supports initial findings that different forms of child maltreatment can have differential effects on mother-infant bonding as one aspect of the mother-child relationship. Further research should include observational data to compare with self-report measures.

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“…At last, the type of assessment for childhood maltreatment we used in this study should be discussed mainly because it is a retrospective self-assessment. 41 Recall bias and denial and/or minimization may have hampered our results 42 and the agreement between prospective and retrospective measures of childhood maltreatment have been reported as poor. 43 Nevertheless, the CTQ has been validated in clinical and non-clinical samples, 44 and the risk of minimization has not been reported as higher in individuals with psychiatric disorders (with BD, recurrent depression or schizophrenia) as compared to controls.…”

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“…At last, the type of assessment for childhood maltreatment we used in this study should be discussed mainly because it is a retrospective self‐assessment 41 . Recall bias and denial and/or minimization may have hampered our results 42 and the agreement between prospective and retrospective measures of childhood maltreatment have been reported as poor 43 .…”

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Association between childhood maltreatment and the clinical course of bipolar disorders: A survival analysis of mood recurrences

Laroche

Godin

Belzeaux

et al. 2022

Acta Psychiatr Scand

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Objectives: Childhood maltreatment, also referred as childhood trauma, increases the severity of bipolar disorders (BD). Childhood maltreatment has been associated with more frequent mood recurrences, however, mostly in retrospective studies. Since scarce, further prospective studies are required to identify whether childhood maltreatment may be associated with the time to recurrence in BD.Methods: Individuals with BD (N = 2008) were assessed clinically and for childhood maltreatment at baseline, and followed up for two years. The cumulative probability of mood recurrence over time was estimated with the Turnbull's extension of the Kaplan-Meier analysis for interval-censored data, including childhood maltreatment as a whole, and then maltreatment subtypes as predictors.Analyses were adjusted for potential confounding factors. Results:The median duration of follow-up was 22.3 months (IQR:12.0-24.8).Univariable analyses showed associations between childhood maltreatment, in particular all types of abuses (emotional, physical, and sexual) or emotional neglect, and a shorter time to recurrence (all p < 0.001). When including potential confounders into the multivariable models, the time to mood recurrence was associated with multiple/severe childhood maltreatment (i.e., total score above the 75th percentile) (HR = 1.32 95%CI (1.11-1.57), p = 0.002), and more specifically with moderate/severe physical abuse (HR = 1.44 95%CI(1.21-1.73), p < 0.0001).Living alone, lifetime anxiety disorders, lifetime number of mood episodes, baseline depressive and (hypo)manic symptoms, and baseline use of atypical antipsychotics were also associated with the time to recurrence. Conclusions:In addition to typical predictors of mood recurrences, an exposure to multiple/severe forms of childhood maltreatment, and more specifically to moderate to severe physical abuse, may increase the risk for a mood recurrence in BD. This leads to the recommendations of more scrutiny and denser follow-up of the individuals having been exposed to such early-life stressors. K E Y W O R D Sbipolar disorder, childhood maltreatment, childhood trauma, mood recurrence, physical abuse (Seif Ben Salem, Karmène Souyris, Victor Barteau and Mohamed Laaidi) for the development of the FACE-BD computer interface (eBipolar©), data management, quality control and regulatory aspects. CONFLICT OF INTERESTNone in relation to this article. AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONSDGL, OG, BE, and CMC designed the study, performed the statistical analysis and wrote the manuscript, approved

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Systematic review and critical appraisal of Childhood Trauma Questionnaire — Short Form (CTQ-SF)

Cited by 59 publications

References 38 publications

The relationship between Internet addiction and childhood trauma in adolescents: The mediating role of social support

The relationship between Internet addiction and childhood trauma in adolescents: The mediating role of social support

Early Abusive Relationships–Influence of Different Maltreatment Types on Postpartum Psychopathology and Mother-Infant Bonding in a Clinical Sample

Association between childhood maltreatment and the clinical course of bipolar disorders: A survival analysis of mood recurrences

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