Assessment of Posttraumatic Symptoms in Patients With First-Episode Psychosis

作者：Schaefer Ingo; Morgan Craig; Demjaha Arsime; Morgan Kevin; Dazzan Paola; Fearon Paul; Jones Peter B; Doody Gillian A; Leff Julian; Murray Robin M; Fisher Helen L

来源：Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 2011, 199(11): 896-898.

DOI：10.1097/NMD.0b013e318234a037

• Trauma
• posttraumatic stress
• first-episode psychosis
• reliability

Posttraumatic stress disorder is common among patients with psychotic disorders. The present study examined the internal reliability and comparability of the Impact of Event Scale (IES) in a sample of 38 patients with first-episode psychosis and 47 controls exposed to severe physical and/or sexual abuse. The IES total score and both subscales showed high internal consistency in both groups (Cronbach's alpha coefficients of approximately 0.9 or higher). Given their equivalent trauma reporting, the lack of differences in IES scores between patients and controls seems to indicate that patients are likely to report accurately and neither exaggerate nor minimize their posttraumatic symptoms. Overall, the findings suggest that the IES can be used to assess symptoms of posttraumatic stress in patients with psychotic disorders as in other populations.

• 出版日期2011-11