PTSD Checklist for DSM-5.

PCL-5

What it measures

Severity of the 20 DSM-5 PTSD symptoms across the four clusters (intrusion, avoidance, negative alterations in cognition/mood, hyperarousal) over the past month

Length and format

20 items. 5-point (0-4, not at all to extremely), summed 0-80; provisional cut-off ~31-33 (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

Many languages incl. ES, FR, DE, NL, ZH, AR, FA, PT and others; the global PTSD self-report standard

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

public-domain / open

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Reference

Weathers, F. W., Litz, B. T., Keane, T. M., Palmieri, P. A., Marx, B. P., & Schnurr, P. P. (2013). The PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5). National Center for PTSD. www.ptsd.va.gov