The diagnostic accuracy of the PTSD checklist: a critical review.

By S. McDonald, P. Calhoun. 2010

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology

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2. Brian Marx
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5. T. Keane
6. Sonya B. Norman
7. Ariel J. Lang
8. Kendall C. Wilkins

Citations in the corpus

• Synthesis of the Psychometric Properties of the PTSD Checklist (PCL) Military, Civilian, and Specific Versions (2011, methodology): “[7] McDonald and Calhoun[8] reviewed 18 studies concerning the diagnostic utility of the PCL.”
• The Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5): Development and Initial Psychometric Evaluation. (2015, background): “…PTSD diagnostic status, ranging from 30 to 60 depending on the population (e.g., combat vs. civilian trauma), setting (e.g., PTSD clinic vs. primary care), and assessment goal (e.g., screening vs. differential diagnosis; McDonald & Calhoun, 2010; Terhakopian, Sinaii, Engel, Schnurr, & Hoge, 2008).”
• The prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder in Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) Veterans: a meta-analysis. (2015, background): “A recent review (McDonald & Calhoun, 2010) documented the limitations of using self-report screening measures to assess PTSD when the population prevalence is unknown.”
• Psychometric properties of the PTSD Checklist for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-Fifth Edition (PCL-5) in veterans. (2016, unknown): “In numerous studies, PCL scores have consistently displayed excellent psychometric properties across a wide range of settings and samples (for reviews see Keen, Kutter, Niles, & Krinsley, 2008; McDonald & Calhoun, 2010).”
• Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in DSM-5: New Criteria, New Measures, and Implications for Assessment (2014, methodology): “…a 17-itemDSM-correspondent self-report measure of PTSD. Developed in 1990, the PCL has become one of the most widely used, extensively validated PTSD questionnaires, and is the basis for much of the CFA literature for PTSD (for reviews, see McDonald & Calhoun, 2010; Wilkins, Lang & Norman, 2011).”
• Psychometric properties of the Turkish version of the PTSD Checklist for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (PCL-5) (2017, background): “There has been a large body of evidence in a wide range of populations indicative of that the PCL has good reliability and validity [9].”
• The Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale for DSM–5 (CAPS-5): Development and Initial Psychometric Evaluation in Military Veterans (2017, methodology): “PCL-C scores have been extensively validated and have excellent psychometric properties (McDonald & Calhoun, 2010; Wilkins et al., 2011).”
• Psychometric analysis of the PTSD Checklist-5 (PCL-5) among treatment-seeking military service members. (2016, methodology): “In addition to using the PSS-I-based PTSD caseness rules described above, we selected cut scores of 39 (Dickstein et al., 2015), 44, and 50 (McDonald & Calhoun, 2010) to indicate a positive screen for PTSD on the PCL-S.”