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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Oct 13.
Published in final edited form as: Mol Psychiatry. 2020 Oct 19;26(7):3108–3121. doi: 10.1038/s41380-020-00911-3

Table 1.

PTSD prevalence estimates based on different PCL-5 scoring rules in the Freeze 1 AURORA MVC (n=666)

Pre-MVC1 8-week2
Scoring rule % (SE) ϕ with DSM-53 % (SE) ϕ with DSM-53
PCL-5 28+ 30.8 (1.8) 0.94 49.2 (1.9) 0.95
PCL-5 31+ 26.3 (1.7) 0.93 42.0 (1.9) 0.93
PCL-5 32+ 25.4 (1.7) 0.94 39.9 (1.9) 0.93
PCL-5 38+ 19.4 (1.5) 0.93 30.3 (1.8) 0.92
DSM-5 31.2 (1.8) 39.0 (1.9)

Abbreviations. PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder; PCL-5, PTSD Checklist for DSM-5; MVC, motor vehicle collision; SE, standard error.

1

PTSD in the 30 days prior to the MVS as assessed in the ED.

2

PTSD in the 30 days before the 8-week survey as assessed in the 8-week survey.

3

Tetrachoric correlation between diagnoses based on the scoring rule in the row and the DSM-5 scoring rule.