Harvard Trauma Questionnaire.

HTQ

What it measures

Cross-cultural trauma assessment in refugee, post-conflict and torture-survivor populations - a trauma-event checklist, an open description of the worst event, and PTSD symptom items plus culture-specific and refugee-specific distress items

Length and format

Varies by version; the original Indochinese HTQ pairs 16 DSM-IV PTSD symptom items with 14 refugee-specific items, preceded by a trauma-event checklist. 4-pt Likert symptom severity (not at all - extremely) plus yes/no trauma-event checklist items (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

30+ langs including Khmer, Lao, Vietnamese, Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, Arabic, Kurdish, Somali, Farsi, Japanese, Spanish and Ukrainian (approx)

Normative data

No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.

Licence

open with attribution

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Reference

Mollica, R.F., Caspi-Yavin, Y., Bollini, P., Truong, T., Tor, S., & Lavelle, J. (1992). The Harvard Trauma Questionnaire: validating a cross-cultural instrument for measuring torture, trauma, and posttraumatic stress disorder in Indochinese refugees. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 180(2), 111-116.