Posttraumatic stress disorder and measurement invariance in a sample of sexual assault survivors: Are symptom clusters stable over time?

Published in: Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy (2019)

Trauma researchers and practitioners are advised to monitor item-level movement on dysphoria scales rather than focus on the average cluster score, because items in this symptom cluster may change in a less predictable way than do items in other symptom clusters. Lack of attention to this issue may lead to inaccurate or incomplete conclusions about how PTSD symptom clusters evolve over time. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

Keyphrases

posttraumatic stress disorder
patient reported
young adults
working memory
emergency department
trauma patients