Journal of Traumatic Stress
Volume 19, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 527-540

Assessing war trauma in refugees: Properties of the comprehensive trauma inventory-104 (Article)

Hollifield M.* , Warner T.D. , Jenkins J. , Sinclair-Lian N. , Krakow B. , Eckert V. , Karadaghi P. , Westermeyer J.
  • a Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Louisville, School of Medicine, Louisville, KY, United States, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Med. Center One, 501 E. Broadway, Louisville, KY 40202, United States
  • b Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States
  • c Departments of Anthropology and Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States
  • d Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States
  • e Sleep and Human Health Institute, Albuquerque, NM, United States
  • f State of California Department of Health, Sacramento, CA, United States
  • g Kurdish Human Rights Watch, San Diego, CA, United States
  • h Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Minneapolis Veterans Administration Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN, United States

Abstract

In this article, the authors describe the properties of the Comprehensive Trauma Inventory-104 (CTI-104), developed and designed empirically to improve assessment of traumatic war-related events. The mean number of events reported by 252 community dwelling Kurdish and Vietnamese refugees was 32 (SD = 27) out of the 104 items. Internal and test-retest reliability was excellent, and the validity of the CTI-104 as a measure of war trauma was supported by its high correlation with standard measures of known outcomes of trauma. The CTI-104 is reliable and valid, and assesses a broader range of traumatic war-related events in a broader range of refugees than currently available instruments. © 2006 International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.

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evaluation rating scale Vietnam battle injury depression refugee anxiety disorder psychological aspect human Refugees middle aged Middle East war controlled study Aged test retest reliability ethnology Cross-Sectional Studies United States cross-sectional study Humans male female Viet Nam psychological rating scale reproducibility Psychiatric Status Rating Scales Reproducibility of Results questionnaire Article Retrospective Studies Questionnaires adult major clinical study posttraumatic stress disorder Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic ethnicity psychotrauma retrospective study
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https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-33947217964&doi=10.1002%2fjts.20137&partnerID=40&md5=b6b9f84aa5c54a9434e89830a8337d31
DOI: 10.1002/jts.20137
ISSN: 08949867
Cited by: 17
Original Language: English