Assessment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in the Community: Prospects and Pitfalls From Recent Studies of Vietnam Veterans
Research on the assessment and diagnosis of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has rather quickly expanded from relatively small studies in clinical settings into the realm of community epidemiology, increasingly relying on population-based or "community" studies. This article highlights some of the key challenges and opportunities associated with assessing PTSD outside of treatment settings by reviewing the results of some recent efforts to develop, test, and use diagnostic measures of PTSD among samples of Vietnam veterans in the community, including in particular the recently completed National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study. Prevalence rates emanating from these different studies are compared, a comprehensive effort to account for some of the more major discrepancies is described, and a general strategy for assessing PTSD in the community-one based on comprehensive assessment of multimethod and multisource information-is suggested.
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Published In
DOI
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Start / End Page
Related Subject Headings
- Clinical Psychology
- 5205 Social and personality psychology
- 5204 Cognitive and computational psychology
- 5201 Applied and developmental psychology
- 1702 Cognitive Sciences
- 1701 Psychology
- 1503 Business and Management