Eve B. Carlson|Steve R. Smith|Patrick A. Palmieri|Constance J. Dalenberg|Josef I. Ruzek|Rachel Kimerling|Thomas A. Burling|David A. Spain
Development and validation of a brief self-report measure of trauma exposure: The Trauma History Screen.
National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder|Summa Health System|Alliant International University|National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder|National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder|VA Palo Alto Health Care System|Stanford University
although information individuals exposure highly stressful events traumatic stressors often useful clinicians researchers available measures long complex use many settings trauma history screen ths developed provide brief easytocomplete selfreport measure exposure high magnitude stressor hms events events associated significant persisting posttraumatic distress ppd measure assesses frequency hms ppd events provides detailed information ppd events testretest reliability studied four samples temporal stability good excellent items trauma types excellent overall hms ppd scores comprehensibility items supported expert ratings well items appeared understood participants relatively low reading levels five samples construct validity supported findings strong convergent validity longer measure trauma exposure correlations hms ppd scores posttraumatic stress disorder ptsd symptoms psychometric properties ths appear comparable better longer complex measures trauma exposure