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Clinical: mood, anxiety and stress

International Trauma Questionnaire.

ITQ

What it measures
ICD-11 PTSD (re-experiencing, avoidance, sense of current threat) and Complex PTSD (the PTSD clusters plus disturbances in self-organization: affect dysregulation, negative self-concept, disturbed relationships)
Length and format
18 (12 symptom items + functional-impairment items). 5-point (0-4, not at all to extremely); diagnostic algorithm for PTSD vs CPTSD (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
30+ languages incl. ES, DE, ZH, AR, PT, EL and many more; explicitly developed for cross-cultural ICD-11 use
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
Cloitre, M., Shevlin, M., Brewin, C. R., et al. (2018). The International Trauma Questionnaire: development of a self-report measure of ICD-11 PTSD and complex PTSD. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 138(6), 536-546.

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