Brief screening instrument for post-traumatic stress disorder

Brewin, Chris R.; Rose, Suzanna; Andrews, Bernice; Green, John; Tata, Philip; McEvedy, Chris; Turner, Stuart; Foa, Edna B.

doi:10.1017/s0007125000161896

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“…Longitudinal stability becomes particularly relevant to brief measures: A screening measure should be easy to administer, complete, and score (Brewin et al, 2002). Simple, brief measures would therefore be preferred over complex screening methods.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Brief measures seem to perform as well as longer measures in cross-sectional comparisons (Brewin, 2005;Thoresen et al, 2010). However, abbreviated measures usually do not include all symptom clusters (Brewin et al, 2002;Ouimette, Wade, Prins, & Schohn, 2008), with the six-item abbreviation of the IES-R (IES-6) being an exception (Thoresen et al, 2010). The narrow coverage of symptoms in brief measures entails a greater risk of failing to detect symptoms prominent at the time of screening.…”

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Properties of Swedish posttraumatic stress measures after a disaster

Arnberg

Michel

Johannesson

2014

Journal of Anxiety Disorders

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This study evaluated the properties of Swedish versions of self-report measures of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), with emphasis on the Impact of Event ScaleRevised (IES-R). Survey data from adult survivors 1, 3, and 6 years after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami (n= 1,506) included the IES-R (from which the IES-6 was derived) and the 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12). The PTSD Checklist (PCL) was included in one survey. A structured clinical interview was performed after 6 years (n = 142). Factor analyses of the IES-R and PCL indicated that a dysphoric-arousal model provided good fit invariant across assessments. Both measures were accurate in excluding PTSD while all measures provided poorer positive predictive values. The IES-R, but not the IES-6 and GHQ-12, evidenced stability across assessments. In conclusion, the Swedish IES-R and PCL are sound measures of chronic PTSD, and the findings illustrate important temporal aspects of PTSD assessment.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Properties of Swedish posttraumatic stress measures after a disaster

Arnberg

Michel

Johannesson

2014

Journal of Anxiety Disorders

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“…CAPE (Community Assessment of Psychic Experiences; Stefanis et al, 2002) PTCI (Posttraumatic Cognitions Inventory; Foa et al, 1999) TSQ (Trauma Screening Questionnaire; Brewin et al, 2002)…”

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“…The Trauma Screening Questionnaire (TSQ; Brewin et al, 2002) is a brief 10 item screening questionnaire to assess the presence or absence of core PTSD symptoms of re-experiencing and hyperarousal with ‘yes’ and ‘no’ responses. A score of six or more ‘yes’ responses has been found to show good predictive validity for PTSD diagnosis in a psychosis population (de Bont et al, 2015) and found to be comparable to clinical interview in diagnostic capability in the general population (Brewin et al, 2002).…”

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The Trauma and Life Events (TALE) checklist: development of a tool for improving routine screening in people with psychosis

Carr

Hardy

Fornells-Ambrojo

2018

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

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Background: Best practice guidelines recommend traumatic events should be assessed in psychosis to support the identification and, when indicated, treatment of post-traumatic stress reactions. However, routine assessment in frontline services is rare, and available tools are not tailored to psychosis. Assessment obstacles include lengthy measures, a focus on single, physically threatening events, and the exclusion of psychosis-related traumas. Objective: To develop and validate a brief trauma screening tool for the identification of clinically significant traumas in people with psychosis. Method: The Trauma and Life Events (TALE) checklist was developed in conjunction with people with lived experience of trauma and psychosis, and specialist clinicians and researchers. The psychometric properties (i.e. test-retest reliability, content validity, construct validity) of the TALE were evaluated in a sample of 39 people with psychosis diagnoses. Results: The TALE displayed moderate psychometric acceptability overall, with excellent reliability and convergent validity for sexual abuse. High rates of psychosis-related trauma and childhood adversity were reported, in particular bullying and emotional neglect. A dose–response relationship between cumulative trauma, post-traumatic stress and psychosis was found. Conclusions: The TALE is the first screening tool specifically designed to meet the needs of routine trauma screening in psychosis services. The psychometric limitations highlight the challenge of developing a measure that is both sufficiently brief to be useful in clinical settings and comprehensive enough to identify all relevant adverse events. Validation of the TALE is now required across the spectrum of psychosis.

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