Table 2.

APA Member, Licensed Psychologists’ Awareness and Adoption of APA’s PTSD Guideline (N = 407)

Awareness and Adoption of APA PTSD Guideline	All Psychologists		Psychologists that Regularly Consult Guidelines		Psychologists that Do Not Regularly Consult Guidelines
	n	%	n	%	n	%	OR	p
Familiar with the guideline a	71	17.4	40	25.3	31	12.4	2.39	.001
Familiar with the process used to create the guideline	44	10.8	20	12.70	24	9.60	1.37	.321
Have used the guideline to inform clinical practice b	45	11.0	32	20.4	13	5.3	4.59	<.0001
Will use the guideline to inform clinical practice b	154	37.7	87	55.8	67	27.0	3.41	<.0001
Downloaded materials about guideline-recommended treatments c	118	28.9	77	48.7	41	16.4	4.85	<.0001
Talked with other clinicians about how to align practice with the guideline c	69	16.9	44	27.8	25	10.0	3.47	<.0001
Attended in-person trainings about treatments recommended in the guideline c	39	9.6	22	13.9	17	6.8	2.22	.017
Talked to current/prospective patients/families about the guideline recommendations c	27	6.6	22	13.9	5	2.0	7.93	<.0001
Decided to provide a guideline-recommended treatment over another option c	25	6.1	21	13.3	4	1.6	9.43	<.0001
Sought consultation to facilitate use of the guideline c	17	4.2	11	7.0	6	2.4	3.04	.025

Note. Licensed psychologists who are currently providing services to adults with PTSD.

^aRating of 4 or 5 on 5-point scale: 1 = Not familiar at all, 5 = Very familiar

^bRating of 4 or 5 on 5-point scale: 1 = have not used/will not use it at all, 5 = have used/will use to a very great extent

^cPsychologists instructed to select all of the activities that they engaged in “because of” the APA PTSD guideline.

OR= odds ratio. p values from χ² tests (df= 1)