Citation

Fujimoto M, Hirose T, Nakayama T, Okawa H, Takigawa I. Biopsychosoc. Med. 2007; 1(1): 14.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group - BMC)

DOI

10.1186/1751-0759-1-14

PMID

17623078

PMCID

PMC1950522

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The Child Abuse Blame Scale-Physical Abuse (CABS-PA) was translated into Japanese, and subscale items were modified according to Japanese cultural context by the authors. The aim of the current study was to investigate the appropriateness, reliability, and clinical applicability of the CABS-PA Japanese version (CABS-PA-J). The modifications were made to enable the determination of child abuse recognition in the Japanese cultural background and early clinical intervention in child abuse cases. METHOD: After CABS-PA text was translated into Japanese, the translation was reversely translated. The appropriateness of scale item translations was verified based on e-mail discussions with the original CABS-PA author. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were performed to examine the validity of CABS-PA-J responses and confirm the validity of factor structure, respectively. Criterion-related validity was also confirmed. The Japanese scale was used to examine the characteristic differences between mothers of premature infants (< 1500 g) and those of other infants (> 1500 g). RESULTS: Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses have found that factor structure is similar between the original scale and translated CABS-PA-J, suggesting enough factor validity. There was statistically significant correlation between social support from spouse or third parties and the abuse score on a subscale, partially demonstrating criterion-referenced validity. Regarding stress reactions, there were similarities and differences between mothers of premature infants (< 1500 g) and those of other infants (> 1500 g). CONCLUSION: With the essential demonstration of appropriateness and reliability, CABS-PA-J was found to be an effective tool to determine the recognition of child abuse among Japanese mothers.

Language: en