My name is Natalie, and I am a graduate student at the University of Tulsa. I am using the Trauma History Questionnaire for my dissertation to assess trauma exposure. My advisor is new to trauma research, and we are starting the data entry process for this measure. We plan on looking at the number of trauma exposures if traumas occurred during childhood or adulthood (or both), and if possible, looking at revictimization rates.

We are finding this measure complex to enter and build our SPSS dataset for. Our participants had put age ranges for when events occurred and used vague developmental stages to answer the age at which trauma occurred (putting "adolescence" or "high school," for example), to name a few of the issues we have run into. We have started to enter the data by creating multiple rows for each participant, with a row for each age that a trauma type has occurred.

We are wondering what the best way to build a dataset is for this measure. We welcome any insight! We tried to input this measure into an online survey platform such as RedCAP or Qualtrics. However, we were not able to input this measure as flexibly as needed. If you have any insight on that process, I would appreciate that as well!

We would appreciate any guidance on this issue. Thank you!