The assessment of psychopathology among traumatized refugees: measurement invariance of the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire and the Hopkins Symptom Checklist-25 across five linguistic groups

The assessment of psychopathology among traumatized refugees: measurement invariance of the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire and the Hopkins Symptom Checklist-25 across five linguistic groups

Background: Questionnaires are widely used to assess the mental health status of refugees, whereas their construct validity largely remains unexplored. Objective: This study examined the construct validity of two widely-used instruments for the assessment of PTSD symptoms (Harvard Trauma Questionnai...

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Main Authors: Tim R. Wind, Niels van der Aa, Simone de la Rie, Jeroen Knipscheer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2017-11-01
Series:European Journal of Psychotraumatology
Subjects:
Refugees
mental health
confirmatory factor analysis
validity
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20008198.2017.1321357

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20008198.2017.1321357

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