ISPCAN Child Abuse Screening Tool for Children (ICAST-C): Translation and adaptation to Mexican Spanish, and psychometric properties tested in Mexico City adolescents

Research using the IPSCAN Child Abuse Screening Tool for Children (ICAST-C), has provided ample evidence of the magnitude of violence against children. Knowledge about its psychometric characteristics and validity is limited. Hence, our objective was to translate and culturally adapt the ICAST-C in...

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Published in:Child abuse & neglect 2022-11, Vol.133, p.105826-105826, Article 105826
Main Authors: Casas-Muñoz, Abigail, Velasco-Rojano, Ángel Eduardo, González-García, Noé, Benjet, Corina, Caraveo-Anduaga, Jorge Javier, Martínez-Vélez, Nora Angélica, Loredo-Abdalá, Arturo
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Abused children
Adaptation
Adequacy
Adolescents
Child Abuse
Child abuse & neglect
Child Advocacy
Children
Cities
Confirmatory factor analysis
Construct Validity
Factor Analysis
Factor Structure
ICAST-C
Psychometric properties
Psychometrics
Public schools
Quantitative psychology
Screening tool
Secondary schools
Spanish language
Teenagers
Tests
Translation
Validity
Violence against children
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Summary:Research using the IPSCAN Child Abuse Screening Tool for Children (ICAST-C), has provided ample evidence of the magnitude of violence against children. Knowledge about its psychometric characteristics and validity is limited. Hence, our objective was to translate and culturally adapt the ICAST-C in adolescents from Mexico City and determine its psychometric properties. To determine the psychometric properties of the instrument 723 adolescents between 11 and 18 years of age from 9 public secondary schools in Mexico City participated. The study was carried out in two phases: 1) translation and adaptation of the instrument (in 5 steps) and 2) pilot evaluation of the psychometric properties. Total and factor reliabilities were determined, Pearson correlation was used for temporal stability while construct validity was determined by Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), and final adequacy of the items eliminated by the CFA. We developed the culturally relevant Mexican Spanish version of the ICAST-C. The CFA confirmed the six-factor structure hypothesis. To improve the original model we eliminated ten items, the final model showed good global fit indices (χ2(1310) = 2207.68, p 
ISSN:0145-2134
1873-7757
DOI:10.1016/j.chiabu.2022.105826