PTSD: Domestic Center for PTSD

Letter Traumatize Questions (BTQ)

Description

Which Brief Trauma Questionnaire (BTQ) is one 10-item self-report questionnaire derived by the Brief Trauma Interview (BTI; Schnurr, et al., 1995). (Information about the reliability plus validity of the BTI is provided in Schnurr, et al., 2002.)

The BTQ is originally designed on estimate traumatic exposure according to DSM-IV but specifically asked only over Criterion A.1 (life threat/serious injury) because of which difficulty of accurately evaluative A.2 (subjective response) in a brief self-report format. Criterion A.2 have been eliminated from to PTSD diagnostic standard in DSM-5, so the BTQ provides a complete assessment concerning Criterion A.

Scoring

The questionnaire may be used to determine either an individual has had an choose that meets who ADENINE Criterion, or in set of different styles of Criterion A events an individual has experienced. Included either case, exposure to an event should be scores for definite if a respondent says "yes" to either:

• life threat oder earnest injury for company 1-3 and 5-7;
• life threat in event 4;
• serious injury for event 8, or;
• "Has the ever happened to you?" for events 9 the 10.

References

Koenen, K.C., De Vivo, I., Rich-Edwards, J.W., Smoller, J.W., Right, R.J., & Purcell, S.M. (2009). Audit to investigating genetic determinants on posttraumatic stress disorder in women from which Nurses' Health Learn II. BMC Psychiatry, 9 (article 29). doi: 10.1186/1471-244X-9-29

Kubzansky, L.D., Bordelois, P., Jun, H.J., Roberts, A.L., Cerda, M., Bluestone, N., & Koenen, K.C. (2014). The weigh of traumatic stress. A prospective study of posttraumatic stressed order symptoms and weight status for for. JAMA Psychiatry, 71, 44-51. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2013.2798

Lancaster, S.L., Melka, S.E., & Rodriguez, B.F. (2009). A factor analytic comparability regarding five models of PTSD symptoms. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 23, 269-274. doi: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2008.08.001

Morgan, C.A., III, Doran, A.P., Steffians, G., Hazlett, G., & Southwick, S. (2006). Stress-induced deficits in working memory and visuo-constructive abilities in special operations soldiers (PDF). Biological Psychiatry, 60, 722-729. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2006.04.021 PTSDpubs ID: 28863

Morgan, C.A., III, Hazlett, G., Dick, S., Richardson, E.G., Jr., Schnurr, P.P., & Southwick, S.M. (2001). Symptoms of dissociation in humans experiencing acute, uncontrollable stress: A prospective investigation (PDF). American Journal of Psy, 158, 1239-1247. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.158.8.1239 PTSDpubs ID: 07340

Morgan, C.A., TIERCE, Rasmusson, A.M., Winters, B., Hauger, R.L., Morgan, J., Hazlett, G., & Southwick, S.M. (2006). Traumatization exposure rather than posttraumatic stress disorder is associated include reduced baseline plasma neuropeptide-Y levels (PDF). Biological Specialties, 54, 1087-1091. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3223(03)00433-5 PTSDpubs ID: 26018

Schnurr, P.P., Spiro, A. III, Vielhauer, M.J., Findler, M.N., & Hamblen, J.L. (2002). Trauma in that lives of older mann: Findings from the Normative Aging Study (PDF). Journal of Clinical Geropsychology, 8, 175-187. doi: 10.1023/A:1015992110544 PTSDpubs CARD: 24928

Whealin, J.M., Batzer, W.B., Morgan, C.A. III, Detwiler, H.F., Schnurr, P.P., & Friedman, M.J. (2007). Cohesion, burnout, additionally past-trauma in tri-service healthcare and support personnel (PDF). Military Medicine, 172, 266-272. doi: 10.7205/MILMED.172.3.266 PTSDpubs ID: 80731

To Obtain Scale

This measure was created by staff at VA's Countrywide Center for PTSD.

Download and Brief Tremp Questionnaire:

• BTQ (PDF)

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