Horowitz’s Impact of Event Scale Evaluation of 20 Years of Use

Sundin, Eva; Horowitz, Mardi J.

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“…The second was a validated national version of the IES-R (Weiss and Marmar, 1997;Maercker and Schützwohl, 1998;Baguena et al, 2001;Preiss et al, 2004;Corapcioglu et al, 2006;Juczyński and Ogińska-Bulik, 2009;Sveen et al, 2010). The IES-R is a commonly used self-report measure that assesses post-traumatic stress symptomatology in the past seven days and possesses satisfactory psychometric properties (Joseph, 2000;Sundin and Horowitz, 2003). Although the IES-R usually is applied to more recent events than those studied here, it was administered because to the best of our knowledge there is no comparable, cross-culturally validated instrument that can be applied to any specific life-event (such as different types of disasters).…”

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Behavioural, emotional, and cognitive responses in European disasters: results of survivor interviews

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In the European multi‐centre study BeSeCu (Behaviour, Security, Culture), interviews were conducted in seven countries to explore survivors’ emotional, behavioural, and cognitive responses during disasters. Interviews, either in groups or one‐to‐one, were convened according to type of event: collapse of a building; earthquake; fire; flood; and terror attack. The content analysis of interviews resulted in a theoretical framework, describing the course of the events, behavioural responses, and the emotional and cognitive processing of survivors. While the environmental cues and the ability to recognise what was happening varied in different disasters, survivors’ responses tended to be more universal across events, and most often were adaptive and non‐selfish. Several peri‐traumatic factors related to current levels of post‐traumatic stress were identified, while memory quantity did not differ as a function of event type or post‐traumatic stress. Time since the event had a minor effect on recall. Based on the findings, several suggestions for emergency training are made.

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Behavioural, emotional, and cognitive responses in European disasters: results of survivor interviews

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“…It is used with both adult and child trauma survivors and has been translated into several other languages (Joseph, 2000, Sudin & Horowitz, 2003. However, some believe that the IES has a number of conceptual and measurement problems.…”

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The Impact of Event Scale-Revised: Psychometric properties in a sample of motor vehicle accident survivors

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Grant

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et al. 2008

Journal of Anxiety Disorders

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This study examined the factor structure, internal consistency, concurrent validity, and discriminative validity of the Impact of Event Scale -Revised (IES-R, Weiss & Marmar, 1997) in a sample of 182 individuals who had experienced a serious motor vehicle accident. Results supported the three-factor structure of the IES-R, Intrusion, Avoidance, and Hyperarousal, with adequate internal consistency noted for each subscale. Support was obtained for the concurrent and discriminative validity, as well as the absence of social desirability effects. Although some differences were noted between the IES-R Avoidance subscale and diagnostically-based measures of this cluster of symptoms, these differences do not necessarily signify measurement problems with the IES-R. The IES-R seems to be a solid measure of post-trauma phenomena that can augment related assessment approaches in clinical and research settings.

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“…Manifestations may include depression, fatigue, perturbation in intimate relationships and social support networks, destabilization of financial situations, non-compliance with treatment, cessation of positive health behaviors, and pursuance of negative health behaviors, e.g. cigarette smoking [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9].…”

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“…The Impact of Events Scale (IES), developed by Horowitz et al in the late 1970's, is a patient-reported instrument that quantitates stress-related intrusive thoughts, denial of thoughts, and avoidance behavior [13]. It has been extensively validated in studies of patients with diverse serious illnesses, including cancer [8,[13][14]. Significant reductions in cancer-associated psychological distress can be achieved with psychosocial interventions aimed at decreasing stress levels, strengthening social support networks, and improving coping and life management skills [15][16][17].…”

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Impaired Natural Killer Cell Lysis in Breast Cancer Patients with High Levels of Psychological Stress is Associated with Altered Expression of Killer Immunoglobin-Like Receptors

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Terrell²,

Welt³

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Journal of Surgical Research

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Background-We previously reported that cancer-related psychological stress is associated with reduced natural killer (NK) cell lysis. We hypothesized that reduced NK cell cytotoxicity in patients with increased levels of stress would correlate with alterations in the expression of inhibitory NK cell receptors (killer immunoglobulin-like receptors, or KIRs). The specific aim of this study was to examine KIR expression in patients with high or low levels of psychologic stress and correlate alterations in KIR expression with NK cell function.

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Horowitz’s Impact of Event Scale Evaluation of 20 Years of Use

Cited by 269 publications

References 56 publications

Behavioural, emotional, and cognitive responses in European disasters: results of survivor interviews

Behavioural, emotional, and cognitive responses in European disasters: results of survivor interviews

The Impact of Event Scale-Revised: Psychometric properties in a sample of motor vehicle accident survivors

Impaired Natural Killer Cell Lysis in Breast Cancer Patients with High Levels of Psychological Stress is Associated with Altered Expression of Killer Immunoglobin-Like Receptors

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