Table 2. Sensitivity and Specificity of Traumatic Event Reports on the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Event Probe, as Compared to the Traumatic Life Events Questionnaire (N = 129).
| Event | TLEQ % (n) |
SCID % (95% CI) |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Sensitivity | Specificity | ||
| Natural disaster | 22 (28) | 21 (9 – 42) | 100 (95 – 100) |
| Accident | 57 (74) | 30 (20 – 42) | 96 (86 – 99) |
| Combat | 1 (1) | 0 (0 – 95) | 100 (96 – 100) |
| Serious illness (e.g., HIV, cancer) | 41 (53) | 6 (2 – 17) | 99 (92 – 100) |
| Death of loved one | 84 (108) | 48 (39 – 58) | 86 (63 – 96) |
| Injury/illness of loved one | 41 (53) | 9 (4 – 21) | 93 (85 – 98) |
| Witness family violence | 56 (72) | 4 (1 – 13) | 100 (92 – 100) |
| Childhood physical assault | 30 (39) | 15 (6 – 31) | 100 (95 – 100) |
| Adult physical assault | 79 (102) | 21 (14 – 30) | 100 (85 – 100) |
| Intimate partner violence | 51 (66) | 9 (4 – 19) | 100 (93 – 100) |
| Witness physical assault | 52 (67) | 21 (12 – 33) | 95 (86 – 99) |
| Threatened with physical assault | 49 (63) | 2 (0 – 10) | 100 (93 – 100) |
| Childhood sexual assault | 29 (38) | 34 (20 – 51) | 98 (92 – 100) |
| Young adult sexual assault | 24 (31) | 29 (15 – 48) | 98 (92 – 100) |
| Adult sexual assault | 22 (28) | 32 (17 – 52) | 99 (94 – 100) |
| Other threats | 39 (50) | 0 (0 – 9) | 100 (94 – 100) |
| Other (e.g., miscarriage, finding dead bodies, violent death of pet, witness drug overdose of stranger) | 69 (89) | 11 (6 – 20) | 90 (75 – 97) |
| Any traumatic event | 100 (129) | 86 (79 – 91) | -- |
Note. CI = confidence interval. Dash indicates that specificity could not be calculated.