Prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder and validity of the Impact of Events Scale – Revised in primary care in Zimbabwe, a non-war-affected African country

Prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder and validity of the Impact of Events Scale – Revised in primary care in Zimbabwe, a non-war-affected African country

Background A critical step in research on the epidemiology of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in low-resource settings is the validation of brief self-reported psychometric tools available in the public domain, such as the Impact Event Scale – Revised (IES-R). Aims We aimed to investigate the...

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Main Authors: Melanie A. Abas, Monika Müller, Lorna J. Gibson, Sarah Derveeuw, Nirosha Dissanayake, Patrick Smith, Ruth Verhey, Andrea Danese, Dixon Chibanda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2023-03-01
Series:BJPsych Open
Subjects:
Global mental health
psychological testing
low- and middle-income countries
post-traumatic stress disorder
rating scales
Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2056472422006214/type/journal_article

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