Teen Hurt-Insult-Threaten-Scream-Sex (Day et al., 2023)
- Populations: Adolescents
- Languages: English, Spanish
Items
Item Stem
“During the last year, how often would you estimate that an adult in your home did each of the following:
- Physically hurt you
- Insult you or talk down to you
- Threaten you with physical harm
- Scream or curse at you
- Forced you to have sex
Responses
Items used a 5 point Likert-type scale, 0=Never; 1=Rarely; 2=Sometimes; 3=Fairly Often; 4=Frequently
Scoring
“Scale scores were calculated by summing responses, with scores ranging from 0-20; higher scores indicate more frequent abusive behavior.” (Day et al., 2023)
Citations
Day, P. G., Woods, S. B., Gonzalez, L., Fernandez-Criado, R., & Shakil, A. (2023). Validating the TeenHITSS to assess child abuse in adolescent populations. Family Medicine, 55(1), 12-19. https://doi.org/10.22454/FamMed.55.203565
Scoring breakdown
Measure development
- Significant design input from young people
- Cognitive interviews with young people
- Expert input
Validity
- Unknown: Face validity
- Green: Convergent validity
- Green: Construct validity
Reliability
- Green: 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
