Children’s Impact of Traumatic Events Scale - Revised, PTSD (Crouch et al., 1999)

• Populations: Sexually Abused Youth
• Age ranges: 8-17
• Languages: English
• Countries: United States

Items

Items not reported, no examples given.  Item counts and subscales:

CITES-R PTSD scale: 26 

• Intrusive Thoughts: 7
• Avoidance: 8
• Hyperarousal: 6
• Sexual Anxiety: 5

Scoring

CITES-R PTSD scale:

• Intrusive Thoughts: High scores reflect respondent experience of re-experience symptoms; nightmares; intrusive thoughts; memories; images related to sexual abuse
• Avoidance: High scores reflect respondent higher tendency to avoid reminders of sexual abuse 
• Hyperarousal: High scores reflect respond high levels of irritability, difficulty concentrating, exaggerated startle response, feelings of restlessness
• Sexual Anxiety: High scores reflect respondent high level of anxiety towards sexual matters; upset when thinking of sex, wishing there was no such thing as sex, hoping never  to have to think about sex again, etc.

Citations

• Crouch, J., Smith, D., Ezzell, C., & Saunders, B. (1990). Measuring Reactions to Sexual Trauma Among Children: Comparing the Children’s Impact of Traumatic Events Scale and the Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children. Child Maltreatment, 4(3), 255-263.
• Wolfe, V. V., Gentile, C., Michienzi, T., Sas, L., & Wolfe, D. A. (1991). Children’s Impact of Traumatic Events Scale: A measure of post-sexual-abuse PTSD symptoms. Behavioral Assessment, 13, 359–383.

Team comments

Developed in a group of 4 measurement instruments:

CITES-R PTSD

CITES-R Social Reactions Scale

CITES-R Attributions Scale

CITES-R Eroticism

(Crouch et al., 1999)