Measurement invariance of six language versions of the post-traumatic stress disorder checklist for DSM-5 in civilians after traumatic brain injury
2022 | journal article. A publication with affiliation to the University of Göttingen.
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Bockhop, Fabian, Marina Zeldovich, Katrin Cunitz, Dominique Van Praag, Marjolein van der Vlegel, Tim Beißbarth, York Hagmayer et al. "Measurement invariance of six language versions of the post-traumatic stress disorder checklist for DSM-5 in civilians after traumatic brain injury." Scientific Reports 12, no. 1 (2022): . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-20170-2.
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- CENTER-TBI participants and investigators
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- Bockhop, Fabian; Zeldovich, Marina; Cunitz, Katrin; Van Praag, Dominique; van der Vlegel, Marjolein; Beißbarth, Tim ; Hagmayer, York; Steinbüchel-Rheinwall, Nicole von ; Åkerlund, Cecilia; Amrein, Krisztina; Zoerle, Tommaso
- Abstract
- Abstract Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is frequently associated with neuropsychiatric impairments such as symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which can be screened using self-report instruments such as the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5). The current study aims to inspect the factorial validity and cross-linguistic equivalence of the PCL-5 in individuals after TBI with differential severity. Data for six language groups ( n ≥ 200; Dutch, English, Finnish, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish) were extracted from the CENTER-TBI study database. Factorial validity of PTSD was evaluated using confirmatory factor analyses (CFA), and compared between four concurrent structural models. A multi-group CFA approach was utilized to investigate the measurement invariance (MI) of the PCL-5 across languages. All structural models showed satisfactory goodness-of-fit with small between-model variation. The original DSM-5 model for PTSD provided solid evidence of MI across the language groups. The current study underlines the validity of the clinical DSM-5 conceptualization of PTSD and demonstrates the comparability of PCL-5 symptom scores between language versions in individuals after TBI. Future studies should apply MI methods to other sociodemographic (e.g., age, gender) and injury-related (e.g., TBI severity) characteristics to improve the monitoring and clinical care of individuals suffering from PTSD symptoms after TBI.
- Issue Date
- 2022
- Journal
- Scientific Reports
- Organization
- Abteilung Vegetationsanalyse & Phytodiversität ; Albrecht-von-Haller-Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften ; Abteilung Waldbau und Waldökologie der gemäßigten Zonen
- eISSN
- 2045-2322
- Language
- English
- Sponsor
- Open-Access-Publikationsfonds 2023