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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 10.
Published in final edited form as: Child Abuse Negl. 2011 Nov 10;35(11):946–955. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2011.06.003

Table 1.

Two separate versions for scoring CSA Severitya.

An Affirmative response to at least one of nine behaviorally oriented questions assessing 7 types of CSA results in the following WSHQ-R question:
CSA Dimension WSHQ-R Short Long
Type of Abuse “Please describe what took place.”

  1. – Non- penetration

  2. - Penetration

  1. – Rub Genitals

  2. – Fondling

  3. – Digital Penetration

  4. – Attempted Rape

  5. – Oral Sex

  6. – Rape/Date Rape

  7. – Anal Sex
Relationship of Victim to Perpetrator “What was his/her relationship to you?”

  1. – Extrafamilial

  2. - Intrafamilial

  1. – Stranger

  2. - Extrafamilialc

  3. - Intrafamilialc

  4. – Parent/Stepparent
Frequency of Abuse “How long did this go on?”

  1. – Once

  2. – More than Once

  1. – Once

  2. – 2–5 times

  3. – 6–9 times

  4. – 10 or more times
Age of Victim at Onset of Abuse “How old were you at the time?”

  1. - > 12 years old

  2. - ≤ 12 years old

  1. – 16–17 years old

  2. – 12–15 years old

  3. – 6–11 years old

  4. – 1–5 years old
a

Non-CSA victims were assigned a value of zero across all dimensions. Some victims reported multiple CSA events where the score for each index ranged from 0–8 (short) or 0–19(long).

c

Extrafamilial includes casual acquaintance, mother’s boyfriend, neighbor, friend of the family, authority figure, date or boyfriend

d

Intrafamilial includes aunt/uncle, grandparent, brother, stepsister, and excludes parental figures.