Trauma and post-traumatic stress.
16 catalogued instruments are currently grouped under this construct, across 3 domains: Clinical: mood, anxiety and stress; Developmental, child, family and couple; Work: attitudes and wellbeing.
This grouping is editorial and provisional. It is derived from what each entry says it measures, it has not been reviewed instrument by instrument, and 195 catalogued instruments are not yet grouped under any construct. Treat the list as a starting point rather than a complete answer, and read each entry for what it actually covers.
- PCL-5 - PTSD Checklist for DSM-5
Clinical: mood, anxiety and stress. 20 items. public-domain / open.
- PCL-C / PCL-M / PCL-S - PTSD Checklist for DSM-IV (Civilian / Military / Specific)
Clinical: mood, anxiety and stress. 17 items. public-domain / open.
- IES-R - Impact of Event Scale - Revised
Clinical: mood, anxiety and stress. 22 items. public-domain / open.
- PDS-5 (PTDS) - Posttraumatic Diagnostic Scale for DSM-5
Clinical: mood, anxiety and stress. 24 (20 symptom items + trauma/impairment items). copyrighted - commercial.
- CAPS-5 - Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale for DSM-5
Clinical: mood, anxiety and stress. 30 (20 symptom items + onset, duration, distress, impairment, validity, severity, subtype items). public-domain / open.
- PSS-I-5 / PSSI-5 - PTSD Symptom Scale - Interview for DSM-5
Clinical: mood, anxiety and stress. 24 items. copyrighted - author permission.
- LEC-5 - Life Events Checklist for DSM-5
Clinical: mood, anxiety and stress. 17 event categories. public-domain / open.
- ITQ - International Trauma Questionnaire
Clinical: mood, anxiety and stress. 18 (12 symptom items + functional-impairment items). open with attribution.
- PC-PTSD-5 - Primary Care PTSD Screen for DSM-5
Clinical: mood, anxiety and stress. 5 (plus a trauma-exposure gate item). public-domain / open.
- CTQ / CTQ-SF - Childhood Trauma Questionnaire
Clinical: mood, anxiety and stress. 28 (CTQ-SF); 70 (original CTQ). copyrighted - commercial.
- HTQ - Harvard Trauma Questionnaire
Clinical: mood, anxiety and stress. 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. open with attribution.
- TSI-2 - Trauma Symptom Inventory-2
Clinical: mood, anxiety and stress. 136 items. copyrighted - commercial.
- ADIS-5 - Anxiety and Related Disorders Interview Schedule for DSM-5
Clinical: mood, anxiety and stress. Semi-structured disorder modules, each ending in a 0-8 clinician severity rating; administered item count varies with skip logic. copyrighted - commercial.
- UCLA PTSD-RI - UCLA PTSD Reaction Index for DSM-5
Developmental, child, family and couple. ~31 symptom items + trauma-history screen; child, adolescent and parent versions. copyrighted - author permission.
- GJSQ - NIOSH Generic Job Stress Questionnaire
Work: attitudes and wellbeing. modular (~100+ if full; modules selectable). public-domain / open.
- BJSQ - Brief Job Stress Questionnaire
Work: attitudes and wellbeing. 57 (standard); 23-item short form. public-domain / open.
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