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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Depress Anxiety. 2019 Jul 29;36(9):790–800. doi: 10.1002/da.22942

Table 2.

Thirty-day DSM-5 PTSD prevalence estimates based on responses to the full PCL-5 using four diagnostic thresholds in the unweighted training and validation samples

DSM-5 Criteria B-E PCL-5 >=28+ PCL-5>= 32+ PCL-5>= 38+
% (SE) % (SE) % (SE) % (SE) (n)
Training sample 6.2 (0.3) 9.2 (0.3) 7.0 (0.3) 5.2 (0.2) (8,917)
Validation sample
 Total 13.1 (0.3) 15.0 (0.3) 13.2 (0.3) 10.5 (0.3) (11,728)
 Ever deployed 15.6 (0.5) 17.9 (0.5) 15.9 (0.5) 12.8 (0.4) (6,280)
 Never deployed 10.1 (0.4) 11.6 (0.4) 9.9 (0.4) 7.8 (0.4) (5,448)