Reliability and validity of a post-traumatic checklist-5 (PCL-5) among fire and rescue officers in Selangor, Malaysia

Salleh, Muhammad Naim Mat; Ismail, Halim; Yusoff, Hanizah Mohd

doi:10.1108/jhr-11-2019-0243

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“…Internal consistency measures for the PCL-5 (𝞪 = 0.94), PHQ-9 (𝞪 = 0.87), and GAD-7 (𝞪 = 0.92) were all high and consistent with other investigations [55,[59][60][61]. Mean reporting scores stratified by demographic characteristics are presented in Table 1.…”

Section: Mental Disorder Symptom Clusterssupporting

confidence: 76%

Mental Disorder Symptoms among Paramedics in a Single Canadian Site

Mausz¹,

Donnelly²,

Moll³

et al. 2022

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There is growing recognition in research and policy of a mental health crisis among Canada’s paramedics but despite this, epidemiological surveillance of the problem is in its infancy. Just weeks before the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, we surveyed paramedics from a single, large, urban paramedic service in Ontario, Canada to assess for symptom clusters consistent with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), major depressive disorder, and generalized anxiety disorder and to identify potential risk factors for each. In total, we received 589 completed surveys (a 97% completion rate) and found that 11% screened positive for PTSD, 15% for depression, and 15% for anxiety, with 1 in 4 active-duty paramedics screening positive for any of the three as recently as February 2020. In adjusted analyses, the risk of a positive screen varied as a function of employment classification, gender, self-reported resilience, and previous experience as a member of the service’s peer support team. Our findings support the position that paramedics screen positive for mental disorders at high rates – a problem likely to have worsened since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We echo the calls of researchers and policymakers for urgent action to support paramedic mental health in Canada.

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Section: Mental Disorder Symptom Clusterssupporting

confidence: 76%

Mental Disorder Symptoms among Paramedics in a Single Canadian Site

Mausz¹,

Donnelly²,

Moll³

et al. 2022

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“…Internal consistency measures for the PCL-5 (𝞪 = 0.94), PHQ-9 (𝞪 = 0.87), and GAD-7 (𝞪 = 0.92) were all high and consistent with other investigations [53,[57][58][59]. Mean reporting scores stratified by demographic characteristics are presented in Table 1.…”

Section: Mental Health Outcomessupporting

confidence: 76%

Mental Disorder Symptoms among Paramedics in a Single Canadian Site

Mausz¹,

Donnelly²,

Moll³

et al. 2022

Preprint

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There is growing recognition in research and policy of a mental health crisis among Canada’s paramedics but despite this, epidemiological surveillance of the problem is in its infancy. Just weeks before the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, we surveyed paramedics from a single, large, urban paramedic service in Ontario, Canada to assess for clinically significant symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), depression, and anxiety and to identify potential risk factors for each. In total, we received 589 completed surveys (a 97% completion rate) and found that 11% met the screening criteria for PTSD, 15% for depression, and 15% for anxiety, with 1 in 4 active-duty paramedics meeting the criteria for any of the three as recently as February 2020. In adjusted analyses, the risk of a positive screen varied as a function of employment classification, gender, self-reported resilience, and previous experience as a member of the service’s peer support team. Our findings support the position that paramedics have high rates of current mental illness – a problem likely to have worsened since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We echo the calls of researchers and policymakers for urgent action to support paramedic mental health in Canada.

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“…The results of the studies on trauma-exposed college students [60] and US veterans [61] indicated good internal consistency, satisfactory reliability, and significant correlations with measures of other constructs (convergent and discriminant validity). Also, the first validation study of the Malay version of a PCL-5 for Malaysian fire and rescue officers demonstrates a valid and reliable scale for screening probable PTSD diagnosis [62]. However, it seems that the results of the current research follow the related studies on other populations who experienced traumatic events.…”

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confidence: 51%

Psychometric properties of the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5) in Greek women after cesarean section

2021

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The aim of this study was to examine psychometric properties of the revised Posttraumatic Stress Checklist (PCL-5) for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual– 5th Edition (DSM-5) in Greek postpartum women after Cesarean Section(CS) (emergency-elective).So far, there was no study in Greece assessing psychometric properties of the PCL-5 in women after CS. The participating women (N = 469), who gave birth with emergency and elective CS at the Greek University Hospital of Larisa, have consented to participate in two phases of the survey and completed self-report questionnaires, the 2nd day after CS and at the 6th week after CS. Measures used in this study were the PCL-5 for DSM-5, the Life Events Checklist (LEC-5), Criteria B, C, D, E, and Criterion A, specifically designed for detection of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in postpartum period. To evaluate the internal reliability of the PCL-5 two different indices of internal consistency were calculated, i.e., Cronbach’s alpha (.97) and Guttman’ssplit-half (.95), demonstrating high reliability level. The data were positively skewed, suggesting that the reported levels of PTSD among our participants were low. Factor analyses demonstrated acceptable construct validity; a comparison of thePCL-5 with the other measures of the same concept showed a good convergent validity of the scale. Overall, all the results suggest that the four-factor PCL-5 seemed to work adequately for the Greek sample of women after CS.

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Reliability and validity of a post-traumatic checklist-5 (PCL-5) among fire and rescue officers in Selangor, Malaysia

Cited by 7 publications

References 18 publications

Mental Disorder Symptoms among Paramedics in a Single Canadian Site

Mental Disorder Symptoms among Paramedics in a Single Canadian Site

Mental Disorder Symptoms among Paramedics in a Single Canadian Site

Psychometric properties of the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5) in Greek women after cesarean section

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