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TY - JOUR
T1 - The Lancaster and Northgate Trauma Scales (LANTS)
T2 - the development and psychometric properties of a measure of trauma for people with mild to moderate intellectual disabilities
AU - Wigham, S.
AU - Hatton, C.
AU - Taylor, J. L.
PY - 2011/11
Y1 - 2011/11
N2 - People with intellectual disabilities are exposed to a high number of adverse life events, and evidence supports a link between the experience of adverse life events and trauma. Interventions for trauma have been found to be efficacious if case recognition can be facilitated. However to date there are no psychometrically validated measures of trauma for people with intellectual disabilities. This study describes the development of the Lancaster and Northgate Trauma Scales (LANTS), which comprise a self-report and an informant measure of the effects of traumatic life events on people with intellectual disabilities. The pool of items for the measures was created via a systematic review, and consultation with key stakeholders. 99 service users and 88 staff completed the LANTS measures during a pilot. The 29-item self-report LANTS and the 43-item informant LANTS were found to have good psychometric properties, including internal and test retest reliability, plus convergent and construct validity. The findings suggest the LANTS are promising trauma screening tools for use in clinical and research settings.
AB - People with intellectual disabilities are exposed to a high number of adverse life events, and evidence supports a link between the experience of adverse life events and trauma. Interventions for trauma have been found to be efficacious if case recognition can be facilitated. However to date there are no psychometrically validated measures of trauma for people with intellectual disabilities. This study describes the development of the Lancaster and Northgate Trauma Scales (LANTS), which comprise a self-report and an informant measure of the effects of traumatic life events on people with intellectual disabilities. The pool of items for the measures was created via a systematic review, and consultation with key stakeholders. 99 service users and 88 staff completed the LANTS measures during a pilot. The 29-item self-report LANTS and the 43-item informant LANTS were found to have good psychometric properties, including internal and test retest reliability, plus convergent and construct validity. The findings suggest the LANTS are promising trauma screening tools for use in clinical and research settings.
KW - Trauma
KW - Assessment
KW - Life events
KW - BEHAVIOR-PROBLEMS-INVENTORY
KW - EMOTIONAL DISTRESS SCALE
KW - BRIEF SYMPTOM INVENTORY
KW - PAS-ADD CHECKLIST
KW - LEARNING-DISABILITIES
KW - PSYCHIATRIC-SYMPTOMS
KW - LIFE EVENTS
KW - ADULTS
KW - STRESS
KW - QUESTIONNAIRES
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=80053638925&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.ridd.2011.06.008
DO - 10.1016/j.ridd.2011.06.008
M3 - Journal article
VL - 32
SP - 2651
EP - 2659
JO - Research in Developmental Disabilities
JF - Research in Developmental Disabilities
SN - 0891-4222
IS - 6
ER -