The following questions ask about events that may be extraordinarily stressful or disturbing for almost everyone. Please answer "Yes" or "No" to report what has happened to you. If you answer "Yes" for an event, please answer the additional questions that follow to report: (1) whether you thought your life was in danger or you might be seriously injured; and (2) whether you were seriously injured. If you answer "No" for an event, go on to the next event.
Report details · optional
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About this screener — evidence, source
A 10-item self-report questionnaire, derived from the Brief Trauma Interview, asking about lifetime exposure to war, accidents, disaster, life-threatening illness, childhood physical abuse, assault, unwanted sexual contact, violent death of a loved one and witnessed violence, with follow-up questions on life threat and serious injury. Used to establish whether a PTSD Criterion A event has occurred.
Evidence · validated
Derived from the Brief Trauma Interview, whose reliability and validity are reported by Schnurr et al. (2002). Used as the trauma-exposure measure in large cohort studies such as the Nurses' Health Study II (Koenen et al., 2009). It is an exposure checklist with no symptom score or cut-off.
Source & licence
Schnurr P, Vielhauer M, Weathers F, Findler M. The Brief Trauma Questionnaire (BTQ) [Measurement instrument]. 1999. Available from https://www.ptsd.va.gov. Schnurr PP, Spiro A III, Vielhauer MJ, Findler MN, Hamblen JL. Trauma in the lives of older men: findings from the Normative Aging Study. J Clin Geropsychol. 2002;8:175–187.
Licence: US federal government work — created by staff at the US VA National Center for PTSD and distributed as a free direct download
The VA states its measures are intended for use by qualified health professionals and researchers. Two extraction typos are corrected ('orchemical' → 'or chemical'; 'some else's' → 'someone else's').
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