Psychometric properties of the PTSD Checklist for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-Fifth Edition (PCL-5) in veterans.

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Developing an optimal short-form of the PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5) (2019, methodology): “Although the PCL‐5 has excellent psychometric properties (Blevins, Weathers, Davis, Witte, & Domino, 2015; Bovin et al., 2016; Keane et al., 2014; Wortmann et al., 2016), one weakness is the scale's length (5–10min completion time; National Center for PTSD), which is problematic given that VA/DoD…”
Item Ordering and Computerized Classification Tests With Cluster-Based Scoring: An Investigation of the Countdown Method (2017, methodology): “Indeed, practitioners using the PCL-5 to screen respondents for PTSD may infer from the results that maintaining the standard PCL-5 ordering within each cluster yields adequate efficiency in comparison with the Mean Score procedure.”
Exposures to Potentially Traumatic Events Among Public Safety Personnel in Canada (2019, methodology): “PTSD was assessed with the PTSD Check List 5 (PCL-5; Ashbaugh, Houle-Johnson, Herbert, El-Hage, & Brunet, 2016; Blevins et al., 2015; Bovin et al., 2016; MacIntosh, Séguin, Abdul-Ramen, & Randy, 2015; Weathers et al., 2013) based on a past-month timeframe.”