Translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the children's exposure to domestic violence scale (CEDV) from English to Swahili

Chitegetse A. Minanago, Rik Crutzen, Hubertus W. van den Borne and Sylvia F. Kaaya

Children and Youth Services Review, 2023, vol. 148, issue C

Abstract: Most scales developed to assess childhood developmental outcomes are western-based and are written in the English language. This study aimed at translating and cross-culturally adapting the CEDV scale from English to Swahili to meet the social-cultural context of Tanzania and to enable Tanzanian children to effectively associate their exposure to inter-parental violence. The study was conducted in Iringa, Southern Tanzania, involving a sample of 247 i.e., 236 children (9–12-year-olds) and 11 adult participants. The adults comprised seven translators, a clinical psychologist, a childhood assessment expert, and two primary school teachers who were involved in translation work and adaptation evaluation workshops; selected using purposive and snowball techniques. Furthermore, a sub-final Swahili CEDV version was pretested with 10 purposively selected bilingual school-based child participants using cognitive interviews; while a survey with 210 randomly selected school children pilot tested a final CEDV Swahili measure. A 40-item Swahili CEDV scale, with good internal consistency (Ω = 0.89) emerged. Further testing of the Swahili CEDV for its validity is warranted to allow researchers and clinicians to be availed a measurement scale that is culturally relevant, reliable and valid for assessing Swahili speaking children’s exposures to inter-parental violence.

Keywords: Translation; Cross-cultural adaptation; Inter-parental violence; Children’s exposure to domestic violence; CEDV scale; Swahili (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2023.106913

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