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Published in final edited form as: J Trauma Stress Disord Treat. 2014 Oct 28;4(1):10.4172/2324-8947.1000139. doi: 10.4172/2324-8947.1000139

Table 4.

Severity classification outcomes of MPSS-SR and CAPS at baseline and follow-up time-points

	Baseline assessment	1 week follow-up	3 month follow-up	6 month follow-up	12 month follow-up
Category	(n=349)	(n=217)	(n=209)	(n=215)	(n=214)
Five-level ranking
Overall correct	36%	57%	58%	68%	71%
Kappa	0.209	0.417	0.394	0.519	0.507
Three-level ranking
Overall correct	72%	69%	69%	75%	79%
Kappa	0.211	0.519	0.52	0.587	0.62

Note: MPSS-SR : Modified Posttraumatic Symptom Scale - Self Report; CAPS : Clinician Administered PTSD Scale; 5-way categorization is asymptomatic, mild/subthreshold, moderate/threshold, severe, or extreme (Weathers et al., 2001); 3-way categorization is asymptomatic, mild/subthreshold, and collapses threshold, severe, and extreme into a full PTSD category.