NET in Iranian Women Suffering From Post Traumatic Stress Symptoms

The PDS/PSS-I is a 17-item screening instrument on a 4-point-Likert-scale (0 = not at all to 3 = very much). The PDS aims at assessing all Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV) criteria of a Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and thus it includes information about the nature of the traumatic event and the level of functional interference.

The Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ) is a self-administered version of the PRIME-MD diagnostic instrument for common mental disorders. The PHQ-9 is the depression module

The Hopkins Symptom Checklist 25 would be used to screen for symptoms of depression and anxiety.

The Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) would be used to assess the perception of stress over the course of the last month preceding the interview

The CAS, a 30-item validated research instrument, is a widely used self-report questionnaire of behaviors that women describe as abusive by their partners. It is a self-report measure that provides standardized sub scale scores on four dimensions of intimate partner abuse. The four dimensions are Severe Combined Abuse, Emotional Abuse, Physical Abuse, and Harassment, scaled from 0 (never) to 5 (daily) over a period of 12-month.

The WSAS is a widely used 5-item measure of disability. Its psychometric properties were analyzed and shown in different studies and disorders (Mataix-Cols et al, 2005; Mundt et al, 2002).

The Life Events Checklist (LEC) is a brief, 17-item, self-report measure designed to screen for potentially traumatic events in a respondent's lifetime. The LEC assesses exposure to 16 events known to potentially result in PTSD or distress and includes one item assessing any other extraordinarily stressful event not captured in the first 16 items.

This checklist assessing the incidence of domestic violence was developed by Catani (2002) and includes questions on physical abuse, verbal violence, neglect and sexual abuse as well as witnessing intimate partner violence between parents.

The BSL-23 is a shortened form of the full version of the BSL-95. The self-report questionnaire assesses borderline-specific symptomatology on a five response scale ranging from 0 (not at all) to 4 (very strongly).