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Children's Impact of Event Scale (CRIES-13)
Availability
This instrument is available here: Children's Impact of Event Scale
 
Classification
Exploratory: Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)-Pediatric
 
Short Description of Instrument
The Impact of Events Scale (IES) was developed to assess the experience of a traumatic event but was not originally designed for use with children. It has since been revised to be used with children ages 8 years and older who are able to read.
 
The three subscales are:
 
Intrusion (4 items)
 
Avoidance (4 items)
 
Arousal (5 items)
 
Comments/Special Instructions
Data for this scale is for ages 9-14.
 
References
Chen CS, Cheng CP, Yen CF, Tang TC, Yang P, Yang RC, Huang MS, Jong YJ, Yu HS. Validation of the Impact of Event Scale-Revised for adolescents experiencing the floods and mudslides. Kaohsiung J Med Sci. 2011;27(12):560-565.
 
Dyregrov A, Kuterovac G, Barath A. Factor analysis of the impact of event
scale with children in war. Scand J Psychol. 1996;37(4):339-350.
 
Weiss DS. Impact of Event Scale-Revised. In J. P. Wilson& T. M. Keane (Eds.), Assessing psychological trauma and PTSD: a practitioner's handbook. New York: Guilford Press, 2004, pp. 168-189.
 
Weiss DS & Marmar CR. The Impact of Event Scale-Revised. In JP Wilson & TM Keane (Eds.), Assessing psychological trauma and PTSD. New York: Guilford Press, 1996, pp. 399-411.

 

Document last updated June 2020