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Citation

Kevan B. Int. J. Methods Psychiatr. Res. 2016; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

Federal Reserve Board, Washington, DC, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/mpr.1516

PMID

27453581

Abstract

This investigation seeks to validate an application of a standardized post-traumatic stress symptom self-report survey, the Davidson Trauma Scale (DTS), with a large, heterogeneous population of earthquake victims. While previous studies have focused primarily on small samples, this investigation uses a unique dataset to assess the validity of this application of the DTS while accounting for heterogeneity and sample size. We use concurrent validity and reliability analysis tests to confirm the validity of the scale. Further, confirmatory factor analysis is used to test the fit of the data's factor structure against previously established trauma models. Finally, these fit tests are repeated across different mutually exclusive vulnerability subsets of the data in order to investigate how the invariance of the scale is affected by sample heterogeneity. We find that this particular application of the scale is, on the whole, reliable and valid, showing good concurrent validity. However, evidence of variability is found across specific vulnerability subsets, indicating that a heterogeneous sample can have a measurable impact on model fit. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Language: en

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