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Pediatric HITSS
Aka: Pediatric HITSS, Pediatric Hurt Insult Threaten Scream Sex Questionnaire, PedHITSS
- Indications
- Evaluation of Child Abuse (under age 12 years)
- Criteria
- For each question, answer with one of the following numbers on the Likert Scale
- Score 0: Never
- Score 1: Rarely
- Score 2: Sometimes
- Score 3: Fairly Often
- Score 4: Frequently
- During the last year, how often would you estimate that an immediate family member did the following to a child?
- Physically HURT them?
- INSULT or talk down to them?
- THREATEN them with physical harm?
- SCREAM or curse at them?
- Forced them to have SEX?
- Evaluation: Interpretation
- Any positive score should prompt additional evaluation
- Total Score >8.5 identified all cases of abuse perpetrators in one study
- References
- Shakil (2018) Fam Med 50(10):763-9 +PMID: 30428105 [PubMed]