# The International Trauma Questionnaire: development of a self‐report measure of ICD‐11 PTSD and complex PTSD

“The International Trauma Questionnaire: development of a self‐report measure of ICD‐11 PTSD and complex PTSD” (2018), by Marylène Cloître et al. Psychology research paper. Original abstract below, unchanged. No free PDF was found.

- Authors: Marylène Cloître, Mark E. Shevlin, Chris R. Brewin, Jonathan I. Bisson, Neil P. Roberts, Andreas Maercker, Thanos Karatzias, Philip Hyland
- Published: September 3, 2018
- Field: Psychology
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/acps.12956
- Source: https://doi.org/10.1111/acps.12956

## Abstract

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to finalize the development of the International Trauma Questionnaire (ITQ), a self-report diagnostic measure of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex PTSD (CPTSD), as defined in the 11th version of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11). METHOD: The optimal symptom indicators of PTSD and CPTSD were identified by applying item response theory (IRT) analysis to data from a trauma-exposed community sample (n = 1051) and a trauma-exposed clinical sample (n = 247) from the United Kingdom. The validity of the optimized 12-item ITQ was assessed with confirmatory factor analyses. Diagnostic rates were estimated and compared to previous validation studies. RESULTS: The latent structure of the 12-item, optimized ITQ was consistent with prior findings, and diagnostic rates of PTSD and CPTSD were in line with previous estimates. CONCLUSION: The ITQ is a brief, simply worded measure of the core features of PTSD and CPTSD. It is consistent with the organizing principles of the ICD-11 to maximize clinical utility and international applicability through a focus on a limited but central set of symptoms. The measure is freely available and can be found in the body of this paper.

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