Citation

Kim W, Kim D, Seo HJ, Lee SY, Ryu SH, Kim JB, Chung MY, Koo YJ, Ryu SG, Kim EJ, Kim TS, Lim HK, Woo JM, Chae JH. J. Korean Med. Sci. 2009; 24(1): 26-31.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry and Stress Research Institute, Seoul Paik Hospital, Inje University, Seoul, Korea.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, Korean Academy of Medical Science)

DOI

10.3346/jkms.2009.24.1.26

PMID

19270809

PMCID

PMC2650999

Abstract

For diagnosis and management of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the easily administered assessment tool is essential. Structured Interview for PTSD (SIP) is a validated, 17-item, simple measurement being used widely. We aimed to develop the Korean version of SIP (K-SIP) and investigated its psychometric properties. Ninety-three subjects with PTSD, 73 subjects with mood disorder or anxiety disorder as a psychiatric control group, and 88 subjects as a healthy control group were enrolled in this study. All subjects completed psychometric assessments that included the K-SIP, the Korean versions of the Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS) and other assessment tools. The K-SIP presented good internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha=0.92) and test-retest reliability (r=0.87). K-SIP showed strong correlations with CAPS (r=0.72). Among three groups including PTSD patients, psychiatric controls, and normal controls, there were significant differences in the K-SIP total score. The potential cut-off total score of K-SIP was 20 with highest diagnostic efficiency (91.9%). At this point, the sensitivity and specificity were 95.5% and 88.4%, respectively. Our result showed that K-SIP had good reliability and validity. We expect that K-SIP will be used as a simple but structured instrument for assessment of PTSD.

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