A new short version of the Posttraumatic Diagnostic Scale: validity among Japanese adults with and without PTSD
| Autor: | Sayuri Hirohata, Nobukazu Nagae, Mingming Lin, Yoshiharu Kim, Toshiko Kamo, Madoka Niwa, Yuri Ujiie, Mariko Itoh |
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| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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050103 clinical psychology
medicine.medical_specialty lcsh:RC435-571 psychometric properties behavioral disciplines and activities Correlation 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Internal consistency lcsh:Psychiatry medicine 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Screening tool Psychiatry validation posttraumatic diagnostic scale Basic Research Article 05 social sciences screening scale re-experiencing symptom Scale validity Posttraumatic stress posttraumatic stress disorder Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Research Article Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | European Journal of Psychotraumatology, Vol 8, Iss 1 (2017) European Journal of Psychotraumatology |
| DOI: | 10.6084/m9.figshare.21829737.v1 |
| Popis: | Background: Identifying high-risk groups for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) during evacuation situations requires a valid short screening tool. The re-experiencing symptoms of PTSD are considered helpful for distinguishing those with PTSD from those without, as they are thought to be specific to PTSD, have less ambiguity for respondents, and are representative of all PTSD symptoms. Objective: To develop a new short version of the Posttraumatic Diagnostic Scale (PDS) comprising only re-experiencing symptom items. Method: We used existing data (N = 169) from our previous study on the Japanese version of the PDS and the Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS). The sample included both clinical outpatients (n = 106) and university students (n = 63), all of whom reported one or more traumatic experiences. We created candidate 2- and 3-item versions of the PDS and compared their psychometric characteristics against the CAPS. Results: The best candidate (comprising items for ‘intrusive images’, ‘nightmares’, and ‘physiological reactions when reminded of the trauma’) demonstrated an area under the curve of .95, 94.8% sensitivity, 86.1% specificity for the best cut-off score of three. The candidate scale also showed a strong correlation with CAPS-evaluated severity score and internal consistency. Conclusions: The brief re-experiencing PDS had good psychometric properties among Japanese adults with and without PTSD. |
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