Journal of Traumatic Stress, Vol. 19, No. 4, August 2006, pp. 527–540 ( C 2006) Assessing War Trauma in Refugees: Properties of the Comprehensive Trauma Inventory-104 Michael Hollifield Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Louisville, School of Medicine, Louisville, KY Teddy D. Warner Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM Janis Jenkins Departments of Anthropology and Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH Nityamo Sinclair-Lian Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM Barry Krakow Sleep and Human Health Institute, Albuquerque, NM Valorie Eckert State of California Department of Health, Sacramento, CA Pary Karadaghi Kurdish Human Rights Watch, San Diego, CA Joseph Westermeyer Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN and the Minneapolis Veterans Administration Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN In this article, the authors describe the properties of the Comprehensive Trauma Inventory-104 (CTI- 104), developed and designed empirically to improve assessment of traumatic war-related events. The mean number of events reported by 252 community dwelling Kurdish and Vietnamese refugees was 32 (SD = 27) out of the 104 items. Internal and test-retest reliability was excellent, and the validity of the CTI-104 as a measure of war trauma was supported by its high correlation with standard measures of known outcomes of trauma. The CTI-104 is reliable and valid, and assesses a broader range of traumatic war-related events in a broader range of refugees than currently available instruments. The research was conducted while Michael Hollifield was with the Departments of Family and Community Medicine and Psychiatry, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. This research was supported by the National Institute of Mental Health, Grant # RO1 59574. We are deeply indebted to our advisors and assistants, Nguyen Yen, Bui Toan, Dinh Ky, Bobbie Nobles, Don Aaker, Jiyan Gozeh, Johnson Yuam, Quach Hoa, Nguyen Dien, Nguyen Phong, Nazar Gozeh, Parwaz Khaswrah, Diary Mohammad, Mohammad Dowlati, Chinar Hussein, Alan Beker, Corbaan Raza, Rzgar Abdula, and Faridoun Veriyani. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to: Michael Hollifield, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Med Center One, 501 E. Broadway, Suite 340, Louisville, KY 40202. E-mail: m.hollifi[email protected]. C 2006 International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com) DOI: 10.1002/jts.20137 527
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