Citation

Dansky BS, Saladin ME, Brady KT, Kilpatrick DG, Resnick HS. Int. J. Addict. 1995; 30(9): 1079-1099.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston 29425-0742, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1995, Marcel Dekker)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

7591350

Abstract

A structured interview with behaviorally specific probes was used to assess victimization and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in a clinical and a national, epidemiologic sample of women who had received treatment for a substance use disorder. Separate clinical and epidemiologic approaches to evaluating substance use disorders were compared. More than 80% of women in both samples had a history of sexual and/or physical assault and approximately one-quarter had current PTSD. The similarity in patterns of victimization, PTSD, and substance use across two samples suggests that telephone structured interviews are a valid method of collecting data/information about these important phenomena.

Language: en