BACKGROUND: Despite the widespread use of the Impact of Event Scale to measure post-traumatic stress symptoms, psychometric evaluations of the scale have revealed mixed findings.
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BACKGROUND: Despite the widespread use of the Impact of Event Scale to measure post-traumatic stress symptoms, psychometric evaluations of the scale have revealed mixed findings.
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- Emotional Numbing in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Current and Future Research Directions (2002) · doi
OBJECTIVE: Despite being understudied and poorly understood relative to the chronic fear, anxiety and other aversive emotional states that occur in the immediate aftermath of trauma, emotional numbing has become a core defining feature of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Keywords: emotional objective despite understudied poorly understood relative chronic fear anxiety aversive states occur immediate aftermath - A Pragmatic Approach to Psychometric Comparisons between the DSM-IV and DSM-5 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Checklists in Acutely Injured Trauma Patients (2020) · doi
Objective: Prior investigations suggest the relative equivalence of the DSM-IV and DSM-5 versions of the Posttraumatic Stress Disorders (PTSD) Checklist, yet no investigations have assessed the psychometric properties of the scales in pragmatic trials of acutely injured trauma survivors.
Keywords: investigations objective prior suggest relative equivalence versions posttraumatic stress disorders ptsd checklist assessed psychometric properties - Psychometric properties of the Norwegian Impact of Event Scale-Revised in a non-clinical sample (2009) · doi
BACKGROUND: Despite the widespread use of the Impact of Event Scale to measure post-traumatic stress symptoms, psychometric evaluations of the scale have revealed mixed findings.
Keywords: scale background despite widespread impact event measure post traumatic stress symptoms psychometric evaluations revealed mixed
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