[Standardization of the scale for evaluation of psychopathologic sequelae of traumatic stress].
Horovitz's scale is of questionnaire type and is used to register psychological consequences of traumatic stress with the method of self-assessment. As it is not widely known nor applied in our conditions, we got down to translate, apply and validate the scale in our examinees. The research aim was to check the practicality, applicability, objectivity discriminatory value and validity of the scale and to adopt it for our needs and our examinees who were divided into two groups: participants of war who were expected to show PTSD (posttraumatic stress disorders) (67 examinees) and non-participants of war who might have stress experiences in life (77 examinees). The result of neuropsychiatric examination, results obtained from the PTSD-interview and few other psychological tests of personal capability and personality characteristics were used as a criterion for checking up the validity of the scale. The research results demonstrated the scale to be very simple, economical and easily applicable in various conditions--especially for research, differential diagnosis and follow up effects of therapy on PTSD. In general, reliability and validity of the scale was very high, since it was in positive correlation with the neuropsychiatric examination results, PTSD interview and neuroticism tests.
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Vojnomedicinska akademija, Institut za mentalno zdravlje i vojnu psihologiju, Beograd.
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D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D014857:Warfare