The Adaptation of children's knowledge of abuse questionnairerevised (CKAQ-R) to Turkish: Validity and reliability study

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the psychometric properties of the Turkish form ofChildren’s Knowledge of Abuse Questionnaire revised by Tutty (1997). The sample of the study wascomposed of 476 female (47.4%) and 528 male (52.6%) students who were enrolled in primary andsecondary schools. The construct validity was analyzed using the Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) andSimilar Scale Validity methods. The CFA results indicated that the Bad Touch sub-scale was composed of22 items, and the Good Touch sub-scale was composed of 8 items, which formed a 30-item questionnaire.The model which was tested based on the results was found to have very good fit indices, and thedimensions obtained fit the original form of the questionnaire. The Spearman rank correlation coefficientbetween the questionnaire and the Good Touch Bad Touch Scale (Çeçen and Kaf Hasırcı, 2013) used forSimilar Scale Validity was found .62 (p