@article{ref1,
title="Evaluating the Risk of Child Abuse: The Child Abuse Risk Assessment Scale (CARAS)",
journal="Journal of interpersonal violence",
year="2012",
author="Chan, Ko Ling",
volume="27",
number="5",
pages="951-973",
abstract="The present study developed the Child Abuse Risk Assessment Scale (CARAS), an actuarial instrument for the assessment of the risk of physical child abuse. Data of 2,363 Chinese parents (47.7% male) living in Hong Kong were used in the analyses. Participants were individually interviewed with a questionnaire assessing their perpetration of child abuse and some theoretically or empirically tested factors associated with child abuse. Using the split-half validation procedure, the 5-factor, 64-item CARAS was created and validated. When applying to the second half of the split sample, the CARAS had a sensitivity of 81.9%, a specificity of 77.8%, and an overall accuracy of 78.1%. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) was .91. Overall, our findings showed that the CARAS is a simple, systematic and validated instrument identifying at-risk population of child maltreatment in Chinese societies.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0886-2605",
doi="10.1177/0886260511423252",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260511423252"
}