Adverse Childhood Experience-HIV (Kidman et al., 2019)

Negative childhood experiences predicting HIV risk factors in early and middle adolescents; 21 Items, Ages 10-16

Populations: Early and Middle adolescents
Age ranges: 10-16
Languages: chiChichewa
Countries: Malawi

Items

Examples not provided, questions covered

household mortality
morbidity
orphanhood
sibling residence
community HIV prevalence

(Kidman et al., 2019)

Scoring

“Using those events reported with adequate frequency, a final score was calculated by summing HIV-related events experienced in each time period.” (Kidman et al., 2019)

Citations

Kidman, R., Smith, D., Piccolo, L. R., & Kohler, H. (2019). Psychometric evaluation of the adverse childhood experience international questionnaire (ACE-IQ) in malawian adolescents. Child Abuse & Neglect, 92, 139-145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2019.03.015
World Health Organization (2012). Adverse childhood experiences international questionnaire (ACE-IQ) – Rationale for ACE-IQ. https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/adverse-childhood-experiences-international-questionnaire-(ace-iq)

Team comments
This scale is developed for use alongside the Adverse Childhood Experience International Questionnaire (World Health Organization, 2012)

Scoring breakdown

Measure development

Significant design input from young people
Cognitive interviews with young people
Expert input

Validity

Unknown: Face validity
Green: Convergent validity
Unknown: Construct validity

Reliability

Unknown: Internal consistency
Unknown: Test-retest

Ease of use

Unknown: Readability

Definitions

Face validity: How well a measure appears to represent the construct it is supposed to be measuring.

Convergent validity: How well a measure correlates with other hypothetically-related measures.

Construct validity: The extent to which a measure reflects the construct it was designed to evaluate.

Internal consistency: The extent to which items in a scale capture aspects of the same construct.

Test-retest: The degree to which measurement scores are consistent over a short period of time (usually 2 weeks).

Readability: The ease with which a reader can understand the questionnaire items.

Key

Green: Meets validation criteria
Red: Does not meet validation criteria
Unknown: Evidence not available