Background and Purpose: Measuring abuse can be a critical step in reducing intimate partner violence (IPV)-related trauma. We developed a reliable and validated cross-cultural Arabic version of the Emotional Abuse Questionnaire (EAQ) in the Arab region. Methods: We recruited 200 women via phone and from health care centers. Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin test, Bartlett's sphericity test, and the principal axis factoring with varimax rotation were used to assess EAQ's validity, and Cronbach's alpha was used to determine the reliability. Results: The Arabic version of EAQ demonstrated high validity and reliability, indicating its suitability for measuring emotional abuse in the Arab region. Conclusions: The EAQ will provide nurses in the Arab region with a tool to identify emotional abuse during a nursing assessment or as part of an IPV screening protocol.
Keywords: emotional abuse; emotional abuse questionnaire; nurses; psychometric properties.
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