Impact of Event Scale - Revised.
IES-R
Subjective distress following a specific traumatic event across three subscales: intrusion, avoidance, and hyperarousal (added in the revision)
- Provisionally grouped under
- Length and format
- 22 items. 5-point distress (0-4, not at all to extremely), past 7 days; subscale means or total 0-88 (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Many languages incl. ES, FR, DE, ZH, JA, AR, NL, BCMS and others; one of the most-translated trauma measures
- Licence
- public-domain / open
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- Reference
- Weiss, D. S., & Marmar, C. R. (1997). The Impact of Event Scale - Revised. In J. P. Wilson & T. M. Keane (Eds.), Assessing psychological trauma and PTSD (pp. 399-411). New York: Guilford.
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