The Study Of Evaluation In Chinese Version About Life Incidence Of Traumatic Events-student Form And Child-Report Of Post-traumatic Symptoms

Object: Validating Chinese Version of the Life Incidence of Traumatic Event-Student form and Child-report Posttraumatic Symptom introduced from USA, in order to evaluating its utility locally.Method: The cluster sampling method was employed to recruit the 8-18 pupils and students in the normal community schools and two special school, one school for the deaf-mutes and the other one for borderline delinquency male student. Achenbach's YSR was chosen to serve as the validity criteria. The translation and back translation procedure was undertaken according to the author's recommendation. Several psychometrical indicators were analyzed for reliability and validity about the Chinese version of LITE-S and CROPS, such as Cronbach's alpha coefficient, test-retest coefficient, content validity, construct validity, discriminate validity, criteria validity.Result: The Cronbach's alpha coefficient for LITE-S and CROPS was 0.794 and 0.903 respectively. The five-week test-retest coefficient for LITE-S and CROPS was 0.760 and 0.903, respectively. The total number of lifetime incidence traumatic events accounted for a contributor of total score on CROPS. There five factors were produced through the factor analysis with oblique rotation. The first factor was avoidance and depression, the second was intrusion and high arousal, the third one was somatic complaint, the forth was sense of guilty and sadness, the fifth was sleeping disorder. Among these five factors, the forth factor discriminated between the students from normal schools and special schools. Higher total mean score on CROPS was found among the students from special schools than that of the students from normal schools significantly. The students having behavior problems screened by YSR were higher in total mean score on CROPS than those of the students without having behavior problems statistically. The average coefficient between the total score on CROPS and the eight symptoms defined by YSR was 0.6332±0.1129. All the coefficients were significant statistically.Conclusion:1 The Chinese version of LITE-S and CROPS which are the screening tools of traumatic events and posttraumatic symptom for children and adolescents introduced from USA meet the important psychometrical requirements.2 LITE-S and CROPS can serve as the candidate for screening traumatic events and posttraumatic symptom in groups of children and adolescents aged 8-18 for the purpose of measuring and comparing within groups.