Psychometric detection of fabricated symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder.
Vietnam veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder and two groups instructed to fabricate its symptoms completed the MMPI. A discriminant function analysis of selected scale scores and an empirically derived decision rule successfully classified over 90% of the subjects.
D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005162:Factitious Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008950:MMPI; D008297:Male; D011594:Psychometrics; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014481:United States; D014729:Veterans Disability Claims