TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2002//
TI  - Reliability and validity of the Japanese-language version of the impact of event scale-revised (IES-R-J): four studies of different traumatic events
JO  - Journal of nervous and mental disease
A1  - Asukai, Nozomu
A1  - Kato, Hiroshi
A1  - Kawamura, Noriyuki
A1  - Kim, Yoshiharu
A1  - Yamamoto, Kohei
A1  - Kishimoto, Junji
A1  - Miyake, Yuko
A1  - Nishizono-Maher, Aya
SP  - 175
EP  - 182
VL  - 190
IS  - 3
N2  - The authors developed the Japanese-language version of the Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IES-R-J) and investigated its reliability and validity in four different groups: workers with lifetime mixed traumatic events, survivors of an arsenic poisoning case, survivors of the Hanshin-Awaji earthquake, and survivors of the Tokyo Metro sarin attack. Evidence includes retest reliability and internal consistency of the IES-R-J. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and partial PTSD cases indicated significantly higher scores than non-PTSD cases. The IES-R-J can be a useful self-rating diagnostic instrument particularly for survivors with PTSD symptoms as a clinical concern (PTSD + partial PTSD) by using a 24/25 cutoff in total score. In analysis of scale structure, the majority of intrusion and hyperarousal items were subsumed under the same cluster, whereas avoidance items made up a separate cluster. Female patients indicated higher scores than male patients. A negative weak correlation between age and the score was found only among female earthquake survivors. The IES-R-J can be used as a validated instrument in future international comparative research.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0022-3018
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -