DOI: 10.3886/icpsr39036.v1
title: CTDA 1006: Validation of the Acute Stress Checklist for Children (ASC-Kids) in English & Spanish in Children Age 8 to 17, United States, 2007-2010
title: Version 1

description: Validated Spanish-language measures of child traumatic stress are needed to assess Spanish-speaking children in the United States. This study built on the development of self-report checklist measures for acute stress disorder (ASD) in children, primarily the Acute Stress Checklist for Children (ASC-Kids), in English and Spanish. The prospective study assessed the reliability, validity, and factor structure of these child self-report measures by enrolling parallel samples of English- and Spanish-speaking children and adolescents (age 8-17 years) recruited in inpatient and outpatient settings associated with academic medical centers in the United States.
description: The purpose of the study was to examine reliability and validity of English- and Spanish-language measures of acute, single-incident event-related stress in children and adolescents living in the United States.
description: Children/adolescents were recruited for the study from health care and community-based social service settings across three U.S. cities between 2007 and 2010. Children/adolescents completed an acute stress checklist measure in English or Spanish, followed by completing a semi-structured interview in English or Spanish with an interviewer who was blinded to the checklist responses. Parents/caregivers answered items in their preferred language. To assess test-retest reliability, children/adolescents were given a copy of the checklist to complete the next day and return by mail. A follow-up assessment was completed three months later in person or by phone.
description: Study-level metadata: study title and P.I., series ID, methodology (e.g., weights, recruitment setting type)
Traumatic event descriptors: injury or illness type/cause, degree of exposure (i.e., direct or indirect), injury circumstance, year of event
Demographics: child/adolescent age, sex, race/ethnicity, and school level; parent/caregiver sex, race/ethnicity, education level, relationship to child/adolescent
Stress items: emotions and behaviors experienced by the child/adolescent during and following the incident (e.g., isolation, numbness, dissociation, poor memory, nightmares, aggression, hypervigilance)
Mental health symptoms: depression, anxiety, self-esteem, suicidal ideation, nervousness
Help seeking items: if the child/adolescent or parent/caregiver sought support from family, friends, professionals, religious/spiritual leaders
Parents/caregiver-answered items: if child/adolescent has experienced different types of traumatic events; if so, child's age during the incident

Spanish-language items have been translated into English in this dataset.
description: Presence of Common Scales: 
Acute Stress Checklist for Children (ASC-Kids)
Cuestionario de Éstres Agudo - Niños (CEA-N)
Diagnostic Interview for Children and Adolescents - Acute Stress Disorder module (DICA-ASD)
Entrevista Diagnóstica para Niños y Adolescentes - módulo Trastorno de Éstres Agudo (EDNA-TEA)
Child Depression Inventory (CDI) - English and Spanish
Child PTSD Symptom Scale [for DSM-IV] (CPSS) - English and Spanish
Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) - English and Spanish
Help-Seeking Questions (HSQ) - English and Spanish
Revised Child Manifest Anxiety Scale (RCMAS) - English and Spanish
Youth Trauma Screen (YTS) - English and Spanish
description: Children and adolescents were eligible for the study if they were 8 to 17 years old, had experienced a traumatic event 2 days to 1 month prior to study recruitment, and spoke English and/or Spanish. Events were excluded if there was repeated relational trauma (e.g., family violence, ongoing abuse), a moderate to severe head injury, the child/adolescent or parent had a realistic risk of legal liability, or the child/adolescent or parent/caregiver was a perpetrator of violence. The study had 479 children and adolescents enrolled; the respondents from one site were excluded in the archived dataset (32 cases excluded, final n=447). Sample subgroups were based on the language used for assessment: English-only, Spanish-only, or both English and Spanish measures (if bilingual).
description: Datasets: 
DS1: CTDA 1006: Validation of the Acute Stress Checklist for Children (ASC-Kids) in English & Spanish in Children Age 8 to 17, United States, 2007-2010
description: Children and adolescents exposed to a potentially traumatic event.
description: face-to-face interview; mail questionnaire; self-enumerated questionnaire; telephone interviewThis project is part of the Child Trauma Data Archives (CTDA). For more information, please visit the CTDA series website and refer to the Collection Notes document under the Data and Documentation tab.This project is intended to be used in cross-study analysis with other child trauma datasets.Some documentation may reflect a previous version of the study title and PI affiliations. For the latest metadata, please see this study homepage.