In the beta phase of the 11 revision of International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11), the World Health Organization (WHO) exposes ICD-11 content through a collection of web services. The emerging Common Terminology Services 2 (CTS2) standard provides a common model and semantics for representation, interchange, and federation of terminological resources. We hypothesize that the CTS2 standa...

The Conllict Tactics Scales (CTS) are the most widely used instrument for identifying domestic violence. There are two main versions of tlie CTS: the CTS2 (Straus, Hamby. Boney-McCoy. and Sugarman 1996) is the version measuring violence against a partner in a dating or marital relationship. The CTS2 has scales to nieas~ire victiinizatioii and perpetration of thi-ee lactics that are onen used in...

The revised Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS2) is the most widely used instrument for measuring intimate partner violence. This article presents a short form to enable the CTS2 to be used when testing time is very limited. It also presents procedures that can be used with either the full test or the short form to classify individuals on the basis of severity of behavior toward a partner or by a par...

Although the original Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS) have been successfully used in many countries, no studies have been published on the cross-cultural reliability and validity of the revised instrument (CTS2). This study was intended to provide some of the needed psychometric information. It reports reliability and validity of the five CTS2 scales (Physical Assault, Physical Injury, Psychologi...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether experiencing sibling violence in adolescence is a significant predictor for later dating violence. The influence of parent-to-child and parent-to-parent violence is also explored. METHODS A modified version of the CTS2 was administered to community college students. The survey instrument used the CTS2 psychological and physical assault subscales. RESULTS Adole...

OBJECTIVE To assess the measurement accuracy and the utility of the Chinese Abuse Assessment Screen (AAS). DESIGN A cross-sectional study. SETTING An antenatal clinic of a public hospital and a community centre in Hong Kong. SAMPLE A total of 257 Chinese women consisting of 100 pregnant women and 157 nonpregnant women. METHOD The Chinese AAS was administered first, followed by the Chine...

STUDY OBJECTIVE Because of the promise of its ability to quickly identify cases of violence against women during pregnancy, the abuse assessment screen (AAS) should be the focus of numerous psychometric evaluations. This paper assesses its measurement accuracy compared with the revised conflict tactics scales (CTS2) used as standard. DESIGN Cross sectional study. Besides several ancillary que...

Disruption of genes in medically important fungi has proved to be a powerful tool for evaluation of putative virulence factors and identification of potential protein targets for novel antifungal drugs. Chitinase has been suggested to play a pivotal role in autolysis of the parasitic cell wall of Coccidioides immitis during the asexual reproductive cycle (endosporulation) of this systemic patho...