Psychometric Study of a Brief Screen for PTSD:Assessing the Impact of Multiple Traumatic Events:

摘要: Most measures of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms are limited in that they focus on a single traumatic event and cannot be used to assess persons who report no events. The utility the brief PTSD do not key sin-gle trauma is by lengthiness high reading levels. Screen for Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms (SPTSS) brief, self-report screening instrument overcomes these limitations assessing using low level without keying them specific event. In sample 136 psychiatric inpatients, SPTSS showed good internal consistency, sensitivity rate, moderate specificity rate. concurrent construct validity were supported strong correlations with symptom experience comparisons scores groups different histories.