Development of Screening Inventory for Thai Muslim Spouses at Risk of Domestic Violence Behaviors in Satun Province

The objective of this research was to develop a screening inventory for Thai Muslims spouses at risk of domestic violence behaviors in Satun Province. The study was conducted with the subject group of 1,140 households consisting of 2,280 people recruited through multi-stage sampling. The data were analyzed using the R program to find out the indexes of item-objective congruence, t-values, corrected item-total correlation coefficients, Cronbach’s alpha coefficients, percentile rank scores, and the normalized t-scores. The results of the study revealed that the screening inventory for Thai Muslims spouses at risk of domestic violence behaviors in Satun Province consisted of 48 question items with the indexes of item-objective congruence (IOC) between 0.80-1.00, the t-values between 3.668-18.655, the corrected item-total correlation coefficients between .308-.823, the Cronbach’s alpha coefficients (reliability) of .936, the percentile rank scores in the range 23.62-99.87, and the normalized t-scores in the range T23-T80.11.