Evaluating the merits of using brief measures of PTSD or general mental health measures in two-stage PTSD screening
| Autor: | Cherie Nicholson, Helen Benassi, Gerard J. Fogarty, Catherine J. Chesney, Nicole M. Steele |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Poison control Occupational safety and health Stress Disorders Post-Traumatic Young Adult Injury prevention Medicine Humans Mass Screening Psychiatry Iraq War 2003-2011 Mass screening Psychiatric Status Rating Scales business.industry Psychiatric assessment Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Australia General Medicine Middle Aged Mental illness medicine.disease Mental health Checklist Mental Health Military Personnel business |
| Zdroj: | Military medicine. 179(12) |
| ISSN: | 1930-613X |
| Popis: | Psychological screening of large numbers of personnel returning from deployments should be as brief as possible without sacrificing the ability to detect individuals who are experiencing serious psychological difficulties. This study focused on screening for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptomatology in 421 deployed male members of the Australian Army while they were on deployment and again 3 to 6 months after they returned home. The first aim was to evaluate the performance of the Primary Care--Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Screen (PC-PTSD) and a 4-item version of the 17-item Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist (PCL). A second aim was to evaluate the role of the Kessler-10 (K10) in psychological screening. The results indicated that the short form of the PCL was a better substitute for the full PCL than the PC-PTSD. Other results suggested that a more efficient screening process can be achieved using an initial K10 screening followed by more intensive PTSD screening for people identified as high risk. An additional advantage of an initial K10 filter is that other forms of mental illness could also be targeted in the second-stage screening. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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