Abstract
Background: The child posttraumatic stress disorder checklist (CPC) updated to DSM-5 is a questionnaire aimed to assess posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in children. It is available in both parents and child versions. The back-translation method has been used for the French translation of the CPC. It has not been yet validated in French-speaking populations. The aim of this study was to assess the psychometric properties and the validity of the CPC in a sample of French-speaking schoolchildren and their parents.Methods: The sample was composed by 176 children outpatients implicated in the Nice terrorist attack (14 July 2016) aged 7–17 (mean = 11.68 years, SD = 2.63 months) and 122 parents. Cronbach's alpha was used to test CPC internal consistency. The Spearman-correlation coefficient was performed between the French version of the CPC and the Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia Present and Lifetime version (K-SADS-PL) to assess the convergent validity. An ROC curve was constructed to verify the validity of the cutoff scores. An evaluation of the sensitivity and specificity of each score and a comparison with the diagnosis of the K-SADS-PL were made. Finally, a principal component analysis with varimax rotation was computed to analyze the structure of the French version of the CPC.Results: Cronbach's alpha coefficient was 0.90 for child version and 0.91 for parent version of the CPC. There was a statistical correlation between the K-SADS-PL for PTSD and the total score of CPC for the child version (r = 0.62; p < 0.001) and for the parent version (r = 0.55; p < 0.001). The sensitivity and specificity of the children version with a threshold of >20 were 73.1 and 84.7%, respectively, using the K-SADS-PL as the diagnostic reference for PTSD. Concerning the parent version, using the same recommended cutoff score, the sensitivity, and specificity were 77 and 80.5%, respectively.Conclusions: The psychometric properties of the French CPC are good. This questionnaire appears to be valid and should be used in French-speaking children.
Highlights
Since the consideration of the specific problem of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in children in the DSM-III-R [1], the vision of the consequences of a psychotrauma in children has changed
There was a statistical correlation between the K-SADS-PL for PTSD and the total score of child posttraumatic stress disorder checklist (CPC) for the child version (r = 0.62; p < 0.001) and for the parent version (r = 0.55; p < 0.001)
The aim of this article is to validate and examine the psychometric properties of the CPC French version, using the data collected in the “14-7” Program, conducted with children exposed to the Nice (France) terrorist attack, in 2016 [13]
Summary
Since the consideration of the specific problem of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in children in the DSM-III-R [1], the vision of the consequences of a psychotrauma in children has changed. Pediatric PTSD includes four main categories of symptoms: revival of the event; avoidance behaviors; impaired cognition and mood; and neuro-vegetative overactivation. These are the same groups of symptoms as those seen in adults. The child posttraumatic stress disorder checklist (CPC) updated to DSM-5 is a questionnaire aimed to assess posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in children. It is available in both parents and child versions. The aim of this study was to assess the psychometric properties and the validity of the CPC in a sample of French-speaking schoolchildren and their parents
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