| Literature DB >> 8827658 |
L Hyer1, M N Summers, S Boyd, M Litaker, P Boudewyns.
Abstract
A study of the posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among older combat veterans of World War II and the Korean Conflict was conducted. The Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS) was given to 125 older combat veterans, along with a computerized variant of the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R for PTSD, the SCID-DTREE. (The SCID-DTREE was itself validated against the full SCID). Results showed the CAPS to be a good discriminator of PTSD: Out of the 125 cases, only 9 were misclassified using the SCID-DTREE as the base measure, a 93% efficiency. An alpha on the full CAPS was .95. This suggests that the CAPS is an appropriate scale for use with older combat veterans.Entities:
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Year: 1996 PMID: 8827658 DOI: 10.1007/bf02103667
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Trauma Stress ISSN: 0894-9867