Evaluating the Performance of the Primary Care Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Screen for DSM-5 (PC-PTSD-5) in a Trauma-Exposed, Socioeconomically Vulnerable …

EC Lathan, JM Petri, T Haynes, SC Sonu… - Journal of Clinical …, 2023 - Springer
The properties and utility of the Primary Care PTSD Screen for DSM-5 (PC-PTSD-5) remain
unstudied in community-based populations. This study evaluates the performance of the PC …

Examining the psychometric properties of the PCL-5 in a black community sample using item response theory

Y Mekawi, MW Silverstein, A Walker… - Journal of Anxiety …, 2022 - Elsevier
Black Americans are more likely to be exposed to certain types of traumatic events and
experience posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) compared to other racial groups …

As simple as possible, but not simpler: Revisiting the International Trauma Questionnaire (ITQ) complex PTSD items omitted in the shortened version

P Frewen, S Wong, T Bailey, C Courtois, R Lanius - Child Abuse & Neglect, 2023 - Elsevier
Background The risks of oversimplification of the symptomatology of Complex PTSD
(CPTSD) have been highlighted in the literature. Objective To re-examine 10 items …

Factor structure and psychometric performance of the PCL-5 in a clinical sample of veterans seeking treatment in a VA PTSD outpatient clinic.

M Jenkins-Guarnieri, C McEuin… - Psychological …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
There is a clear need to improve the measurement of posttraumatic symptoms in veterans
seeking trauma-focused treatment. We evaluated the structure and psychometric …

Promising Intervention and Measurement Directions for Substance Use Treatment Research Among Hispanics

M Sanchez, L Saavedra, A Lozano… - Current Addiction …, 2024 - Springer
Purpose of review This review highlights recent efforts to understand and eliminate
longstanding disparities in substance use disorder (SUD) treatment among Hispanics …

Differential symptom weighting in estimating empirical thresholds for underlying PTSD severity: Toward a “platinum” standard for diagnosis?

AA Morgan‐López, LM Saavedra… - … Journal of Methods …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Symptom counts as the basis for Post‐Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
diagnoses in the DSM presume each symptom is equally reflective of underlying disorder …

Associations between DSM‐5 posttraumatic stress disorder Criterion E2 endorsement and selected self‐destructive behaviors in recent‐era veterans: A focus on …

RL Zelkowitz, SM Kehle‐Forbes… - … of Traumatic Stress, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Revisions to the posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) criteria in the DSM‐5 included a new
criterion in the alterations in arousal and reactivity cluster (ie, engagement in reckless and …

Estimating posttraumatic stress disorder severity in the presence of differential item functioning across populations, comorbidities, and interview measures …

AA Morgan‐López, DA Hien, TC Saraiya… - Journal of traumatic …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Multiple factor analytic and item response theory studies have shown that items/symptoms
vary in their relative clinical weights in structured interview measures for posttraumatic stress …

The development of a sleep intervention for firefighters: the fit-in (firefighter's therapy for insomnia and nightmares) study

EH Jang, Y Hong, Y Kim, S Lee, Y Ahn… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Background: Firefighters are vulnerable to irregular sleep patterns and sleep disturbance
due to work characteristics such as shift work and frequent dispatch. However, there are few …

Confirmatory factor analysis of the Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS-5) based on DSM-5 vs. ICD-11 criteria

A Krüger-Gottschalk, T Ehring… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Many studies have investigated the latent structure of the DSM-5 criteria for
posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, most research on this topic was based on …