Preliminary Danish Norms for the Odense Child Trauma Screening (OCTS).

ABSTRACT: The Odense Child Trauma Screening (OCTS) is Danish story stem screening tool applicable for assessment of preschoolers and young children in risk of being traumatized. Having shown initial evidence of validation, Danish norms are needed to strengthen the clinical assessment with the OCTS by serving as a baseline comparison for assessment of potentially traumatized children. We tested 169 children from the Danish general population aged 4-8 with the OCTS and investigated sex and age differences in play-based behavior and narrative representations. Caregivers reported electronically on child demographic information, psychosocial functioning, and history of trauma exposure using The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) and The Diagnostic Infant and Preschool Assessment (DI

SUBMITTER: Alkærsig M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11413271 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature