"What does that mean?": The content validity of the ISPCAN Child Abuse Screening Tool - Child version (ICAST-C) in Romania, South Africa, and the Philippines

Background: The International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN) Child Abuse Screening Tool (Children's Version), known as the ICAST-C Version 3, is used widely to assess violence against children, but there is limited psychometric evidence, especially on content validit...

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Main Authors: Neelakantan, Lakshmi, Fry, Deborah A, Florian, Lani, Silion, Doriana, Filip, Madalina, Thabeng, Mildred, Te, Kathlyn, Sunglao, Jun Angelo, Lu, Mengyao, Ward, Catherine L, Baban, Adriana, Jocson, Rosanne M, Alampay, Liane Peña, Meinck, Franziska
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Online Access:https://archium.ateneo.edu/psychology-faculty-pubs/385
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2022.105869
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spelling ph-ateneo-arc.psychology-faculty-pubs-13852024-05-08T03:05:14Z "What does that mean?": The content validity of the ISPCAN Child Abuse Screening Tool - Child version (ICAST-C) in Romania, South Africa, and the Philippines Neelakantan, Lakshmi Fry, Deborah A Florian, Lani Silion, Doriana Filip, Madalina Thabeng, Mildred Te, Kathlyn Sunglao, Jun Angelo Lu, Mengyao Ward, Catherine L Baban, Adriana Jocson, Rosanne M Alampay, Liane Peña Meinck, Franziska Background: The International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN) Child Abuse Screening Tool (Children's Version), known as the ICAST-C Version 3, is used widely to assess violence against children, but there is limited psychometric evidence, especially on content validity. Objective: This study aimed to assess the content validity of the ICAST-C with adolescents in Romania, South Africa, and the Philippines. Methods: A purposive sample of adolescents (N = 53, 51 % female) were recruited from urban areas in Romania, the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, and Metro Manila, Philippines. Semi-structured one-on-one in-depth cognitive interviews sought adolescent perspectives on the relevance, comprehensibility, and comprehensiveness of the ICAST-C. Data were analysed using template analysis. Results: The ICAST-C was broadly perceived to be relevant and comprehensive in measuring violence against children in all study locations. However, there were issues with the comprehensibility of the measure, described at three levels: interpreting items, undertaking coherent elaborations of relevant behaviors and places, and generating a coherent response to the questions. Conclusions: Suggestions to revise the ICAST-C include, among others, adding a practice or how-to section on answering the survey, clarifying the intent of questions, especially on neglect and sexual abuse, emphasizing that questions cover all locations, and asking more positive questions. Pilot studies testing the content validity and cultural appropriateness are needed as a matter of practice in large self-report surveys. 2022-01-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://archium.ateneo.edu/psychology-faculty-pubs/385 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2022.105869 Psychology Department Faculty Publications Archīum Ateneo Child abuse Child maltreatment Cognitive interviews Content validity ICAST Measurement Psychometrics Child Psychology Psychiatry and Psychology Psychology Social and Behavioral Sciences
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topic Child abuse
Child maltreatment
Cognitive interviews
Content validity
ICAST
Measurement
Psychometrics
Child Psychology
Psychiatry and Psychology
Psychology
Social and Behavioral Sciences
spellingShingle Child abuse
Child maltreatment
Cognitive interviews
Content validity
ICAST
Measurement
Psychometrics
Child Psychology
Psychiatry and Psychology
Psychology
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Neelakantan, Lakshmi
Fry, Deborah A
Florian, Lani
Silion, Doriana
Filip, Madalina
Thabeng, Mildred
Te, Kathlyn
Sunglao, Jun Angelo
Lu, Mengyao
Ward, Catherine L
Baban, Adriana
Jocson, Rosanne M
Alampay, Liane Peña
Meinck, Franziska
"What does that mean?": The content validity of the ISPCAN Child Abuse Screening Tool - Child version (ICAST-C) in Romania, South Africa, and the Philippines
description Background: The International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN) Child Abuse Screening Tool (Children's Version), known as the ICAST-C Version 3, is used widely to assess violence against children, but there is limited psychometric evidence, especially on content validity. Objective: This study aimed to assess the content validity of the ICAST-C with adolescents in Romania, South Africa, and the Philippines. Methods: A purposive sample of adolescents (N = 53, 51 % female) were recruited from urban areas in Romania, the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, and Metro Manila, Philippines. Semi-structured one-on-one in-depth cognitive interviews sought adolescent perspectives on the relevance, comprehensibility, and comprehensiveness of the ICAST-C. Data were analysed using template analysis. Results: The ICAST-C was broadly perceived to be relevant and comprehensive in measuring violence against children in all study locations. However, there were issues with the comprehensibility of the measure, described at three levels: interpreting items, undertaking coherent elaborations of relevant behaviors and places, and generating a coherent response to the questions. Conclusions: Suggestions to revise the ICAST-C include, among others, adding a practice or how-to section on answering the survey, clarifying the intent of questions, especially on neglect and sexual abuse, emphasizing that questions cover all locations, and asking more positive questions. Pilot studies testing the content validity and cultural appropriateness are needed as a matter of practice in large self-report surveys.
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author Neelakantan, Lakshmi
Fry, Deborah A
Florian, Lani
Silion, Doriana
Filip, Madalina
Thabeng, Mildred
Te, Kathlyn
Sunglao, Jun Angelo
Lu, Mengyao
Ward, Catherine L
Baban, Adriana
Jocson, Rosanne M
Alampay, Liane Peña
Meinck, Franziska
author_facet Neelakantan, Lakshmi
Fry, Deborah A
Florian, Lani
Silion, Doriana
Filip, Madalina
Thabeng, Mildred
Te, Kathlyn
Sunglao, Jun Angelo
Lu, Mengyao
Ward, Catherine L
Baban, Adriana
Jocson, Rosanne M
Alampay, Liane Peña
Meinck, Franziska
author_sort Neelakantan, Lakshmi
title "What does that mean?": The content validity of the ISPCAN Child Abuse Screening Tool - Child version (ICAST-C) in Romania, South Africa, and the Philippines
title_short "What does that mean?": The content validity of the ISPCAN Child Abuse Screening Tool - Child version (ICAST-C) in Romania, South Africa, and the Philippines
title_full "What does that mean?": The content validity of the ISPCAN Child Abuse Screening Tool - Child version (ICAST-C) in Romania, South Africa, and the Philippines
title_fullStr "What does that mean?": The content validity of the ISPCAN Child Abuse Screening Tool - Child version (ICAST-C) in Romania, South Africa, and the Philippines
title_full_unstemmed "What does that mean?": The content validity of the ISPCAN Child Abuse Screening Tool - Child version (ICAST-C) in Romania, South Africa, and the Philippines
title_sort "what does that mean?": the content validity of the ispcan child abuse screening tool - child version (icast-c) in romania, south africa, and the philippines
publisher Archīum Ateneo
publishDate 2022
url https://archium.ateneo.edu/psychology-faculty-pubs/385
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2022.105869
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