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Angie,
Colleagues from the
Oklahoma Health Sciences Center's Center on Child Abuse and Neglect (Mark
Chaffin and Sharon Simpson) and I have developed a brief version of the CAPI
based on over 2,000 protocols and using follow-up CPS reports as an external
criterion. We reported on a preliminary version of this measure at last
year's APSAC Colloquium, and will present the final and improved version this
year at APSAC in Orlando. On cross-validation, this 34-item Brief CAP
correlates at .96 with the original version, has an internal consistency
estimate of .91, a stable factor structure, and a brief validity scale, and
predicts the CAP risk present/not present distinction with 93% overall
accuracy. Neither the full CAP nor the BCAP predict the external
criterion strongly, with the BCAP doing slightly less well. I hope to have
arranged procedures for disseminating the BCAP with Joel Milner by the time we
present at APSAC. I'm not clear where that stands at this moment.
We'll be submitting the manuscript for publication soon (we
hope).
You can also
check Dukewich, Borkowski, and Whitman, 1999, who created a
brief verion on a rational basis for a very neat prospective study. Rick
Barth also used a different brief version in one of his outcome
studies.
Steve Ondersma
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Steven J. Ondersma, PhD, LP, Assistant
Professor
Departments of Psychiatry &
Behavioral Neurosciences and Obstetrics & Gynecology
Wayne State University School of Medicine
2761 E. Jefferson Ave.
Detroit, MI 48207
Phone:
(313) 577-6680
Fax: (313)
993-1372
sondersm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Does anyone know of any good
studies on child abuse prevention that have used a shortened version of the
CAPI? Has anyone shortened the CAPI themselves with
success?
Thanks,
AW
Angie M. Wolf,
Ph.D.
Senior Research
Associate
National Council on Crime and
Delinquency
1970 Broadway,
Suite 500
Oakland, CA 94612
510/208-0500 ext
302
510/208-0511
(fax)
awolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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