The Peritraumatic Distress Inventory: A Proposed Measure of PTSD Criterion A2
American Journal of PsychiatryPublished 1 September 2001
Alain Brunet, Daniel S. Weiss, Thomas J. Metzler, Suzanne R. Best, Thomas C. Neylan, Cynthia Rogers
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The Peritraumatic Distress Inventory was found to be internally consistent, with good test-retest reliability and good convergent and divergent validity, and correlated with two measures of posttraumatic stress symptoms.
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The Peritraumatic Distress Inventory holds promise as a measure of PTSD criterion A2. Future studies should prospectively examine the ability of the Peritraumatic Distress Inventory to predict PTSD and its associated biological and cognitive correlates in other trauma-exposed groups.
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