Translation and Validation of the "Children and Adolescent Trauma Screen" in French (French-CATS)

Civil Hospices of Lyon

Status: Completed

Conditions: Child Psychiatry; Adolescent Psychiatry

Treatments: Procedure: CATS scale

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05690113

69HCL22_0390

2022-A02018-35_22 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Child psychotraumatism and complex psychotraumatism, mainly consecutive to child maltreatment, is a major unaddressed public health issue.

The investigators aim to translate and validate a screening scale to help professionals to better detect and refer children at risk of psychotraumatism.

This study aims to validate the psychometric properties of a french version of the CATS 2.0, in partnership with the original authors of the scale.

Enrollment: 500 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 7 to 17 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• child aged between 7 and 17
• at least an adult of reference (parent or tutor) reachable
• agreement of adult of reference
• for clinical population : have been potentially exposed to a potential traumatic event (according to DSM-V)

Exclusion criteria

• non-mastery of French language

Trial design

500 participants in 2 patient groups

Clinical population

Description:

250 children aged from 7 to 17 will be recruited in 6 clinical departments (child and adolescent psychiatry, forensic medicine, psychotraumatism centers) They will complete the CATS scale as well as the SCARED (Screen for Child Anxiety and Related Disorders). Their parents will also complete the CATS and the SDQ (Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire) to assess convergent and divergent validity.

Treatment:

Procedure: CATS scale

Non-clinical population

Description:

250 children aged from 7 to 17 will be recruited in schools They will complete the CATS scale as well as the SCARED (Screen for Child Anxiety and Related Disorders). Their parents will also complete the CATS and the SDQ (Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire) to assess convergent and divergent validity.

Treatment:

Procedure: CATS scale