The Childhood Trauma Questionnaire--Short Form (CTQ-SF) is widely used to measure childhood abuse of all types. In the present study, we examined the psychometric properties of the Norwegian version of the instrument. The participants constituted four subsamples (n = 517): substance abusers (n = 126), psychiatric patients (n = 210), prisoners (n = 109) and adolescents in out-of-home placements ...

Background: This study evaluated the performance of the BD ProbeTec Chlamydia trachomatis Q (CTQ) Amplified DNA Assay on the BD Viper System with XTR Technology in a multicenter study. Methods: Specimens were collected at 7 geographically diverse clinical sites from 1538 women and men attending sexually transmitted disease, family planning, and obstetrics and gynecology clinics. There were 1465...

Validation study of the Turkish version of the Craving Typology Questionnaire (CTQ) in male alcohol-dependent patients Objective: Alcohol craving is considered a core symptom of alcohol use disorder and a strong predictor of relapse in alcohol-dependent adults. The Craving Typology Questionnaire (CTQ) allows dimensional selfrating assessment of craving according to a three-pathway psychobiologi...

AIM The aim of this study is to examine whether there is an association between cumulative life adversities and treatment-resistant schizophrenia. METHODS We recruited 186 participants diagnosed with schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Adverse life-events were assessed using the Stressful Life Events Screening Questionnaire (SLESQ) and the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ). Treatment resista...

OBJECTIVES The pathogenesis of anxiety is assumed to be interactively influenced by genetic and environmental factors. Thus, a gene-environment interaction (G × E) study of the neuropeptide S receptor gene (NPSR) A/T polymorphism (rs324981) and life events was conducted with respect to anxiety sensitivity (AS) as an intermediate phenotype of anxiety disorders. METHODS A sample of 475 healthy ...