Clinician‐administered PTSD scale: A review of the first ten years of research
By F. Weathers, T. Keane, J. Davidson. Depression and Anxiety, 2001
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The Clinician‐Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS) is a structured interview for assessing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnostic status and symptom severity. In the 10 years since it was developed, the CAPS has become a standard criterion measure in the field of traumatic stress and has now been used in more than 200 studies. In this paper, we first trace the history of the CAPS and provide an update on recent developments. Then we review the empirical literature, summarizing and evaluating the findings regarding the psychometric properties of the CAPS. The research evidence indicates that the CAPS has excellent reliability, yielding consistent scores across items, raters, and testing occasions. There is also strong evidence of validity: The CAPS has excellent convergent and discriminant validity, diagnostic utility, and sensitivity to clinical change. Finally, we address several concerns about the CAPS and offer recommendations for optimizing the CAPS for various clinical research applications. Depression and Anxiety 13:132–156, 2001 © 2001 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Epidemiology
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- Guided internet-delivered cognitive behavior therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder: A randomized controlled trial (2014, background): “Results show internal consistencies of α = .73–.85 (Weathers et al., 2001).”
- Screening, diagnosis, and treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder. (2012, methodology): “The CAPS has well-established reliability and validity and has been tested extensively in veterans.(21) Other semistructured clinical interviews include the PTSD Symptom Scale—Interview Version(9) (PSS-I) and the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV(24) (SCID).”
- Development, Use, and Psychometric Properties of the Trauma History Questionnaire (2011, methodology): “In contrast, the Life Events Checklist (LEC) (Gray, Litz, Hsu, & Lombardo, 2004 ), designed to be used in conjunction with the Clinician Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS) (Weathers, Keane, & Davidson, 2001 ), is a simple listing of 17 events for which the respondent is required to check whether each ”
- A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of amygdala and medial prefrontal cortex responses to overtly presented fearful faces in posttraumatic stress disorder. (2005, methodology): “Thirteen participants met DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for current PTSD (PTSD group), and 13 never had PTSD (control group) according to a structured clinical interview (the Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale [CAPS]).(18) Twenty-four participants were right-handed, and 2 (1 in the PTSD and 1 in the con”
- Trauma in the Lives of Older Men: Findings from the Normative Aging Study (2002, methodology): “, 1995), a clinician-administered structured interview with excel lent psychometric properties (Weathers et al., 2001).”
- The Impact of Event Scale: Revised (2007, methodology): “For example in analyses of the most commonly used structured clinical interview for PTSD, the Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale ( Weathers, Keane, & Davidson, 2001 ), evidence of the prominence of these clusters has been presented (King, Leskin, King, & Weathers, 1998).”
- Cognitive processing therapy for veterans with military-related posttraumatic stress disorder. (2006, methodology): “Prior psychometric studies of the CAPS ( Weathers et al., 2001 ) were utilized to calculate the total CAPS standard error of difference (SEdiff SD121 r 4.74, where SD standard deviation at baseline and r test–retest reliability of the measure).”