TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - PTSD-8: A Short PTSD Inventory
JO  - Clinical practice and epidemiology in mental health
A1  - Hansen, Maj
A1  - Andersen, Tonny Elmose
A1  - Armour, Cherie
A1  - Elklit, Ask
A1  - Palic, Sabina
A1  - Mackrill, Thomas
SP  - 101
EP  - 108
VL  - 6
IS  - 
N2  - Traumatic events pose great challenges on mental health services in scarcity of specialist trauma clinicians and services. Simple short screening instruments for detecting adverse psychological responses are needed. Several brief screening instruments have been developed. However, some are limited, especially in relation to reflecting the posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnosis. Recently, several studies have challenged pre-existing ideas about PTSD's latent structure. Factor analytic research currently supports two four factor models. One particular model contains a dysphoria factor which has been associated with depression and anxiety. The symptoms in this factor have been hailed as less specific to PTSD. The scope of this article is therefore to present a short screening instrument, based on this research; Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) - 8 items. The PTSD-8 is shown to have good psychometric properties in three independent samples of whiplash patients (n=1710), rape victims (n=305), and disaster victims (n=516). Good test-rest reliability is also shown in a pilot study of young adults from families with alcohol problems (n=56).<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1745-0179
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1745017901006010101
ID  - ref1
ER  -