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Measuring childhood maltreatment: Psychometric properties of the Norwegian version of the Maltreatment and Abuse Chronology of Exposure (MACE) scale

PURPOSE: Adverse childhood experiences in sensitive periods of the developing brain render the individual at a life-long risk for a broad spectrum of aberrant health outcomes. However, there is a lack of scales for the comprehensive assessment of adverse childhood experiences providing information o...

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Autores principales: Fosse, Roar, Skjelstad, Dag Vegard, Schalinski, Inga, Thekkumthala, Dorothea, Elbert, Thomas, Aanondsen, Chris Margaret, Greger, Hanne Klæboe, Jozefiak, Thomas
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7046287/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32106231
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0229661
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author Fosse, Roar
Skjelstad, Dag Vegard
Schalinski, Inga
Thekkumthala, Dorothea
Elbert, Thomas
Aanondsen, Chris Margaret
Greger, Hanne Klæboe
Jozefiak, Thomas
author_facet Fosse, Roar
Skjelstad, Dag Vegard
Schalinski, Inga
Thekkumthala, Dorothea
Elbert, Thomas
Aanondsen, Chris Margaret
Greger, Hanne Klæboe
Jozefiak, Thomas
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description PURPOSE: Adverse childhood experiences in sensitive periods of the developing brain render the individual at a life-long risk for a broad spectrum of aberrant health outcomes. However, there is a lack of scales for the comprehensive assessment of adverse childhood experiences providing information of various types and the age of occurrence. Based on the complete, experimental version of the Maltreatment and abuse chronology of exposure (MACE-X) scale, the present study aimed to develop and psychometrically test a Norwegian version of MACE. METHODS: The 75-item MACE-X was translated from German to Norwegian and administered as a self-report measure to 90 outpatients and 145 employees at a Division of specialized mental health care in South-Eastern Norway. The outpatients also completed the Childhood trauma questionnaire (CTQ) and the Symptom checklist 90 (SCL-90) to investigate convergent and predictive validity. To investigate test-retest reliability, outpatients completed MACE once more two weeks later. RESULTS: Rasch analysis and Anderson likelihood ratio tests on the combined outpatient and employee data resulted in a 55 item version of the Norwegian MACE. In the outpatient group, test-retest reliability of the MACE-55 was excellent for total scores (ICC ≥ 0.94) and good to excellent for 10 subscale scores (ICC ≥ 0.82). Convergent validity with the CTQ was moderate to high for both total scores (0.63 ≥ r ≥ 0.86) and subscale scores (0.56 ≥ r ≥ 0.82). As compared to CTQ total scores, a MACE total score that combined severity and duration of exposure was numerically more strongly associated with overall psychiatric symptoms and each of nine symptom domains on the SCL-90. CONCLUSIONS: The newly developed Norwegian MACE comprehensively assesses past exposure to adverse childhood experiences with high psychometric properties. This scale is a useful tool for research questions addressing sensitive periods for childhood adversities and associated health phenotypes.
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spelling pubmed-70462872020-03-09 Measuring childhood maltreatment: Psychometric properties of the Norwegian version of the Maltreatment and Abuse Chronology of Exposure (MACE) scale Fosse, Roar Skjelstad, Dag Vegard Schalinski, Inga Thekkumthala, Dorothea Elbert, Thomas Aanondsen, Chris Margaret Greger, Hanne Klæboe Jozefiak, Thomas PLoS One Research Article PURPOSE: Adverse childhood experiences in sensitive periods of the developing brain render the individual at a life-long risk for a broad spectrum of aberrant health outcomes. However, there is a lack of scales for the comprehensive assessment of adverse childhood experiences providing information of various types and the age of occurrence. Based on the complete, experimental version of the Maltreatment and abuse chronology of exposure (MACE-X) scale, the present study aimed to develop and psychometrically test a Norwegian version of MACE. METHODS: The 75-item MACE-X was translated from German to Norwegian and administered as a self-report measure to 90 outpatients and 145 employees at a Division of specialized mental health care in South-Eastern Norway. The outpatients also completed the Childhood trauma questionnaire (CTQ) and the Symptom checklist 90 (SCL-90) to investigate convergent and predictive validity. To investigate test-retest reliability, outpatients completed MACE once more two weeks later. RESULTS: Rasch analysis and Anderson likelihood ratio tests on the combined outpatient and employee data resulted in a 55 item version of the Norwegian MACE. In the outpatient group, test-retest reliability of the MACE-55 was excellent for total scores (ICC ≥ 0.94) and good to excellent for 10 subscale scores (ICC ≥ 0.82). Convergent validity with the CTQ was moderate to high for both total scores (0.63 ≥ r ≥ 0.86) and subscale scores (0.56 ≥ r ≥ 0.82). As compared to CTQ total scores, a MACE total score that combined severity and duration of exposure was numerically more strongly associated with overall psychiatric symptoms and each of nine symptom domains on the SCL-90. CONCLUSIONS: The newly developed Norwegian MACE comprehensively assesses past exposure to adverse childhood experiences with high psychometric properties. This scale is a useful tool for research questions addressing sensitive periods for childhood adversities and associated health phenotypes. Public Library of Science 2020-02-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7046287/ /pubmed/32106231 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0229661 Text en © 2020 Fosse et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Fosse, Roar
Skjelstad, Dag Vegard
Schalinski, Inga
Thekkumthala, Dorothea
Elbert, Thomas
Aanondsen, Chris Margaret
Greger, Hanne Klæboe
Jozefiak, Thomas
Measuring childhood maltreatment: Psychometric properties of the Norwegian version of the Maltreatment and Abuse Chronology of Exposure (MACE) scale
title Measuring childhood maltreatment: Psychometric properties of the Norwegian version of the Maltreatment and Abuse Chronology of Exposure (MACE) scale
title_full Measuring childhood maltreatment: Psychometric properties of the Norwegian version of the Maltreatment and Abuse Chronology of Exposure (MACE) scale
title_fullStr Measuring childhood maltreatment: Psychometric properties of the Norwegian version of the Maltreatment and Abuse Chronology of Exposure (MACE) scale
title_full_unstemmed Measuring childhood maltreatment: Psychometric properties of the Norwegian version of the Maltreatment and Abuse Chronology of Exposure (MACE) scale
title_short Measuring childhood maltreatment: Psychometric properties of the Norwegian version of the Maltreatment and Abuse Chronology of Exposure (MACE) scale
title_sort measuring childhood maltreatment: psychometric properties of the norwegian version of the maltreatment and abuse chronology of exposure (mace) scale
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7046287/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32106231
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0229661
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