Development and preliminary validation of a brief broad-spectrum measure of trauma exposure: the Traumatic Life Events Questionnaire.

By E. Kubany, S. N. Haynes, M. B. Leisen, J. Owens, A. S. Kaplan, S. B. Watson, K. Burns. Psychological Assessment, 2000

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Subfields: Emergency Medicine

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• Trauma Theory Without Feminism? Evaluating Contemporary Understandings of Traumatized Women (2013, background): “…articles on trauma to begin with a description of the broad scope of events that the authors are including in their understanding of trauma, for example, ‘‘exposure to warfare, disasters, serious accidents, sudden deaths of loved ones, and physical and sexual abuse’’ (Kubany et al., 2000, p. 210).”
• EXPERIENTIAL AVOIDANCE AND FORGIVENESS AS MEDIATORS IN THE RELATION BETWEEN TRAUMATIC INTERPERSONAL EVENTS AND POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER SYMPTOMS (2005, methodology): “Using the cutoff scores suggested by Kubany, Leisen et al. (2000) , 39% of the females would have been diagnosed with PTSD and 20% of the males (the cutoff score for males is based on a veteran sample and is higher than the cutoff score for females, based on abuse samples).”
• An Examination of the Latent Structure of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (2012, positive): “The TLEQ (Kubany et al. 2000a) assesses exposure to 22 potentially traumatic events (e.g., natural disasters, combat or warfare, assault, sexual abuse) consistent with Criterion A1 and A2 of PTSD as specified in the DSM-IV-TR (APA, 2000; i.e., Criterion A1: exposure to a potentially traumatic…”
• Psychometric Properties of the Life Events Checklist (2004, methodology): “At the retest session, participants were also given the TLEQ (Kubany et al., 2000) to investigate the LEC's convergence with an established PTE measure.”
• Discrimination and racial disparities in health: evidence and needed research (2008, positive): “For example, in the Traumatic Life Events Questionnaire (Kubany et al. 2000), instead of asking the respondent if s/he had been in a motor vehicle accident, the respondent is asked ''were you involved in a motor vehicle accident for which you received medical attention or that badly injured or…”
• Intergenerational Trauma: Convergence of Multiple Processes among First Nations peoples in Canada (2009, neutral): “The Traumatic Life Experiences Questionnaire (Kubany et al., 2000) is a scale that elicits information on a range of potentially traumatic events that can be used for both clinical and research purposes.”
• Journalists and mental health: The psychological toll of covering everyday trauma (2019, methodology): “Development and preliminary validation of a brief broad-spectrum measure of trauma exposure: The Traumatic Life Events Questionnaire.”
• Spiritual Struggles and Mental Health: Exploring the Moderating Effects of Religious Identity (2013, methodology): “Stress was measured in terms of 15 stressors, consistent with several previous studies (Cohan & Bradbury, 1997; Kubany et al., 2000; Oman & King, 2000; Shrout et al., 1989).”
• Review of VA/DOD Clinical Practice Guideline on management of acute stress and interventions to prevent posttraumatic stress disorder. (2012, neutral): “Tools such as the Combat Exposure Scale [13] or Traumatic Life Events Questionnaire [14] may be helpful in getting a sense of the spectrum of exposure to traumatic stress in different contexts.”
• The Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale for DSM–5 (CAPS-5): Development and Initial Psychometric Evaluation in Military Veterans (2017, background): “Using the TLEQ categories, the most frequently endorsed category was sudden death of a friend/loved one (n 191, 92.3%), followed by war zone exposure (n 164, 79.2%); natural disaster (n 149, 72.0%); being threatened with serious harm (n 119, 57.5%); life threatening accident, assault, or illness of ”