title: Reliability and validity of the Japanese-language version of the impact of event scale-revised (IES-R-J): four studies of different traumatic events.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Stress Disorders Research, Tokyo Institute of Psychiatry, 2-1-8 Kamikitazawa, Setagaya, Tokyo 156-8585, Japan.
authors.forename: Nozomu
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Asukai
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kato
authors.forename: Noriyuki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kawamura
authors.forename: Yoshiharu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Kohei
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
authors.forename: Junji
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kishimoto
authors.forename: Yuko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Miyake
authors.forename: Aya
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nishizono-Maher
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D004190:Disasters; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D012016:Reference Values; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D023481:Terrorism / Q000523:psychology