Citation

Arata CM, Saunders BE, Kilpatrick DG. Violence Vict. 1991; 6(3): 191-199.

Affiliation

Searcy Hospital, Mobile, Alabama.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1991, Springer Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1818617

Abstract

Using a structured interview to obtain a lifetime history of criminal victimization, a community sample of 266 adult women who had experienced at least one incident of victimization was identified. These women were administered the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised, the Impact of Event Scale, and a structured clinical interview was used to identify Crime-Related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CR-PTSD). A recently derived scale based on responses to items on the SCL-90-R was compared to the IES for predicting current diagnosis of Crime-Related PostTraumatic Disorder. Both the scale and the IES were found to improve prediction of CR-PTSD above base rates and to perform in a similar manner. The utility of each of these scales as a screening measure is discussed.

Language: en