Intimate-partner violence
sexual abuse
ABUSE
The Composite Abuse Scale (CAS) is a widely used questionnaire that covers physical, emotional, and sexual abuse in a relationship with a romantic partner and the frequency of such experiences during the last 12 months. The frequency is quantified into never, only once, several times, once per month, once per week and daily. The wording of the 30 items is gender neutral but derives from women´s descriptions of abuse, reports from professionals and court and police reports of IPV. The CAS has not been validated for men [