What measures are effective in trauma screening for young males in custody? A COSMIN systematic review

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O'Rourke, R, Marriott, M ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7743-5262 and Trigg, R ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6059-7097, 2023. What measures are effective in trauma screening for young males in custody? A COSMIN systematic review. Trauma, Violence, and Abuse. ISSN 1524-8380

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/15248380231219251

Abstract

Despite the available evidence identifying the high prevalence rates of potentially traumatic experiences in forensic populations, there is still a lack of evidence supporting the use of suitable assessment tools, especially for young males in custody. For services to identify, support, and offer trauma interventions to this cohort, practitioners require reliable and valid assessment tools. This systematic review (Open Science Framework registration: https://osf.io/r6hbk) identifies those tools able to provide valid, reliable, and comparable data for this cohort. Five electronic databases and gray literature were searched to identify relevant measures. Inclusion criteria: studies of tools to assess for trauma with males aged between 12 and 25 years-old in a custodial setting, any year of publication, and available in English. Exclusion criteria: studies that did not measure psychological trauma or include a standalone trauma scale, or report primary data. A three-step quality assessment method was used to evaluate the methodological quality and psychometric properties of the measures. Fourteen studies were selected for review (which included 12 measures). The studies sampled a total of approximately 1,768 male participants and an age range of 12 to 25 years. The studies reported on various types of psychometric evidence and due to the lack of homogeneity, a narrative synthesis was used to discuss, interpret, and evaluate each measure. The overall quality of the psychometric properties of the measures in this review showed that the currently available instruments for the assessment of trauma with young males in custody is limited but promising.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Trauma, Violence, and Abuse
Creators:	O'Rourke, R., Marriott, M. and Trigg, R.
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Date:	30 December 2023
ISSN:	1524-8380
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1177/15248380231219251 DOI 1839043 Other
Rights:	© The Author(s) 2023. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Melissa Cornwell
Date Added:	24 May 2024 09:55
Last Modified:	24 May 2024 09:55
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/51476