Child Abuse Scale Urdu
The Child Abuse Scale (CAS) is a widely used measure to assess the occurrence, severity, and impact of child abuse on emotional and developmental aspects of children. The Urdu version of CAS has been developed to evaluate the prevalence and nature of child abuse in Pakistani society. The inventory has been validated for use with Pakistani children, and it measures the incidence, severity, and risk factors that are relevant to the Pakistani context.
The CAS-Urdu version comprises 47 items and measures four sub-scales: physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, and neglect. The questions of this inventory are translated into the Urdu language, which is the primary language of communication in Pakistan, ensuring its validity in understanding the experiences of Pakistani children.
The reliability of the CAS-Urdu version has been demonstrated by using various techniques, including Cronbach’s alpha and test-retest reliability. The test’s reliability was estimated to be satisfactory with a high Cronbach’s alpha value (α=0.84), indicating the ability of the items to measure the same construct consistently. The test-retest reliability of the CAS-Urdu version was also established by administering the inventory to a sample of respondents twice, with an interval of 14 days, and obtaining a correlation coefficient value of 0.90.
The validity of the Urdu version of CAS has been demonstrated by various methods. For instance, the CAS-Urdu version has been validated against other established measures of child abuse, and the results have shown high correlation coefficients with Pearson’s r ranging from .72 to .81. Additionally, the concurrent and discriminate validity of the inventory has been established by evaluating the CAS-Urdu version’s ability to differentiate the children who have experienced abuse from those who had not. Moreover, the factor analysis of the CAS-Urdu version revealed that the items loaded on the four factors as hypothesized, assessing different aspects of abuse.
In conclusion, the CAS-Urdu version is a valid and reliable tool for assessing child abuse in Pakistan. Further, the inventory’s validity and reliability in the Pakistani social and cultural context highlight its importance in understanding the issue of child abuse in Pakistan and assessing the effectiveness of interventions designed to prevent child abuse.
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