NCJ Number
239754
Journal
Journal of Family Violence Volume: 27 Issue: 2 Dated: February 2012 Pages: 157-164
Date Published
February 2012
Length
8 pages
Annotation
The present study reports the development and validation of the Chinese Risk Assessment Tool for Victims (CRAT-V).
Abstract
The present study reports the development and validation of the Chinese Risk Assessment Tool for Victims (CRAT-V), an actuarial instrument for the prediction of intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization in a Chinese population. Data were collected from a representative sample of 2,708 Chinese women who were married or cohabiting in Hong Kong. All participants were interviewed with a questionnaire assessing their experience of IPV victimization and personal or family factors related to IPV. As measured by the Revised Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS 2), the base rates of preceding-year physical and sexual IPV victimization were 4.6 percent and 3.6 percent, respectively. Using a cross-validation procedure, the present study developed a 5-factor instrument with one half of the randomly split sample and validated the resulting tool with the other half. The CRAT-V had a sensitivity of 74.0 percent, a specificity of 68.3 percent, an overall accuracy of 68.7 percent, and an area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve of 0.75 when administered on the second half of sample. Overall, the CRAT-V may serve as a straightforward, systematic, and easy-to-administer instrument tailor-made for Chinese populations for the assessment of risk of IPV victimization against women. Abstract published by arrangement with Springer.