Assessment of older combat veterans with the clinician‐administered PTSD scale
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A study of the posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among older combat veterans of World War II and the Korean Conflict was conducted. The Clinician‐Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS) was given to 125 older combat veterans, along with a computerized variant of the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM‐III‐R for PTSD, the SCID‐DTREE. (The SCID‐DTREE was itself validated against the full SCID). Results showed the CAPS to be a good discriminator of PTSD: Out of the 125 cases, only 9 were misclassified using the SCID‐DTREE as the base measure, a 93% efficiency. An alpha on the full CAPS was 95. This suggests that the CAPS is an appropriate scale for use with older combat veterans.
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Studies conducted with the earlier version of the SCID suggest good concomitant validity (κ = 0.69) and good convergent validity with other measures of PTSD, such as the Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale.
“Studies conducted with the earlier version of the SCID suggest good concomitant validity ( κ = 0.69) 29 and good convergent validity with other measures of PTSD, such as the Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale.”
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- Authors
- Hyer, L., Summers, M. N., Boyd, S., Litaker, M., & Boudewyns, P.
- Affiliations
- Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center (US)
- Corresponding author
- Hyer, Lee
- ORCID
- Litaker, Mark
- Venue
- Journal of Traumatic Stress
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1996-01
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 587-593
- ISSN
- 0894-9867 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-6598
- OpenAlex
- W2122318819
- Cited by
- 62
- References
- 22
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 6
- FWCI
- 1.07
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Traumatic Stress (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Migration, Health and Trauma
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and related disorders
- Keywords
- post-traumatic stress disorder, Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale, World War II veterans, Korean War veterans, PTSD screening, diagnostic accuracy, scale validation
- MeSH terms
- Aged, Combat Disorders, Europe, Humans, Korea, Male, Middle Aged, Personality Assessment, Psychometrics, Veterans, Reproducibility of Results
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