Testing the Factor Structure of the International Trauma Questionnaire (ITQ) in African Community Samples from Kenya, Ghana, and Nigeria

Marcin Owczarek; Menachem Ben-Ezra; Thanos Karatzias; Philip Hyland; Frédérique Vallieres; Mark Shevlin

doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/15325024.2019.1689718

Testing the Factor Structure of the International Trauma Questionnaire (ITQ) in African Community Samples from Kenya, Ghana, and Nigeria

Marcin Owczarek, Menachem Ben-Ezra, Thanos Karatzias, Philip Hyland, Frédérique Vallieres, Mark Shevlin

School of Social Work

Ariel University

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The aim of this study was to test the factorial structure of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Complex PTSD (CPTSD) as outlined in the 11th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) in three African community samples using the International Trauma Questionnaire (ITQ). Four models were tested using confirmatory factor analysis based on a total sample of 2,524 participants, and the two-factor second-order model, representing PTSD and Disturbances in Self-organization (DSO), was the best fitting model. The factors were validated using demographic and trauma-related variables, supporting the use of the ITQ for English-speaking participants in these African countries.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	348-363
Number of pages	16
Journal	Journal of Loss and Trauma
Volume	25
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/15325024.2019.1689718
State	Published - 18 May 2020

Keywords

Africa
Complex PTSD
International Trauma Questionnaire (ITQ)
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Phychiatric Mental Health
Social Psychology
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
Psychiatry and Mental health

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