Assessment of posttraumatic stress disorder in Cambodian refugees using the Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale: Psychometric properties and symptom severity
| Autor: | Scott P. Orr, Vuth Pich, Dara Chhean, Devon E. Hinton, Mark H. Pollack, Roger K. Pitman |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Psychometrics Refugee Clinician Administered PTSD Scale Severity of Illness Index behavioral disciplines and activities Stress Disorders Post-Traumatic Cronbach's alpha Interview Psychological mental disorders Severity of illness medicine Humans Psychiatry Observer Variation Refugees Incidence Incidence (epidemiology) Reproducibility of Results Middle Aged Translating medicine.disease Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Posttraumatic stress Massachusetts Female Cambodia Psychology Anxiety disorder Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Traumatic Stress. 19:405-409 |
| ISSN: | 1573-6598 0894-9867 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/jts.20115 |
| Popis: | Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms were assessed by using the Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS) in a consecutive sample of Cambodian refugees attending a psychiatric clinic in the United States. Psychometric properties of the translated CAPS and severity of PTSD-related symptoms were examined. The CAPS demonstrated adequate psychometric properties, including coefficient alpha (.92) and item-total correlations (.48-.85). Of the sample 56% (101/179) met Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition, criteria for current PTSD. Those patients who met criteria for current PTSD had significantly higher CAPS total scores (M = 65.3, SD = 18.1) than those who did not meet the criteria (M = 13.9, SD = 16.7). |
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