Posttraumatic stress disorder in survivors of acute lung injury: evaluating the Impact of Event Scale-Revised.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Survivors of acute lung injury (ALI) and other critical illnesses often experience substantial posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. However, most questionnaires have not been validated against a PTSD diagnostic reference standard in this patient population. Hence, in the current study of survivors of ALI, we evaluated the Impact of Events Scale-Revised (IES-R), a questionnaire measure of PTSD symptoms, against the Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS), the current state-of-the-art PTSD diagnostic reference standard, which also provides a quantitative assessment of PTSD symptoms.

Methods

We evaluated the IES-R questionnaire vs the CAPS diagnostic interview in 60 of 77 consecutively recruited survivors of ALI from two prospective cohort studies of patie

SUBMITTER: Bienvenu OJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4694105 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature