Table 1 Existing refugee trauma measures described in the research literature
From: Refugee trauma measurement: a review of existing checklists
| No. of items | Target population | Development context | Conceptualisation of trauma | Inter rater reliability, test-retest reliability | Cronbach’s alpha | Type of measure | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CTEI [8] | 36 | Bosnian refugees | Trauma literature | 0.98, 0.93 | 0.9 | Clinician administered | |
| CTI [9] | 104 | Adult refugees | Empirically derived/community | “broad range of war-related events”/DSM IV | n/a, 0.83 | 0.99 | Self-report |
| HTQ [10] | 17 | South East Asian refugees | Expert consensus/clinical context | 0.93, 0.89 | 0.9 | Self-report | |
| PDS [11] | 12 | Western high-risk trauma populations | Empirically derived/community and clinical | Criterion A1, A2 of the DSM IV def of PTSD | n/a, n/a | 0.85 | Self-report |
| SLESQ [12] | 13 | General western population | Review of existing measures, community testing | Criterion A1 of the DSM IV def of PTSD | n/a, 0.89 | n/a | Self-report |
| TLEQ [13] | 16 | General western population | Rational expert methods | n/a 0.74 | n/a | Self-report | |
| (C)WTQ [14] | 28 | Children affected by war in Lebanon | Trauma literature/Empirically derived | “outside the range of usual human experience”/DSM III | n/a, n/a | 0.65 | Self-report |
| WTS [15] | 42 | Cambodian adolescents refugees | Expert consensus/clinical context | n/a, n/a | n/a | Self-report |