Psychometric Properties of Persian Version of the ISPCAN Child Abuse Screening Tool, Parent Version (ICAST‐P)

ABSTRACT Child abuse adversely affects children's cognitive, socio‐emotional and behavioural development. The ISPCAN Child Abuse Screening Tool, Parental version (ICAST‐P) is a questionnaire that relies on parental responses to measure child abuse. Our objective was to assess the reliability, face validity, content validity and construct validity of the ICAST‐P within an Iranian context. This is a methodological study that employed confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) using partial least squares (PLS) to evaluate construct validity. The study involved 430 Iranian mothers with children aged 7–12 from diverse socio‐economic backgrounds. The CFA results confirmed the model's fit (GOF = 0.38, SRMR = 0.079), and reliability indices (Cronbach's alpha ranging from 0.707 to 0.883) supported the scale's internal consistency. The Persian version of the ICAST‐P demonstrates robust psychometric properties, making it a reliable tool for identifying child maltreatment in Iran.