Scoring the Life Events Checklist: Comparison of three scoring methods.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Prior trauma history is a reliable and robust risk predictor for PTSD development. Obtaining an accurate measurement of prior trauma history is critical in research of trauma-related outcomes. The Life Events Checklist (LEC) is a widely used self-report measure of trauma history that categorizes events by the proximity to trauma exposure; however, the field has published multiple scoring methods when assessing the LEC. Herein, we propose a novel scoring procedure in which total scores from the LEC are weighted according to the proximity of trauma exposure with "experienced" events weighted most and "learned about" events weighted least.

Method

The utility of this weighted score was assessed in two traumatically-injured civilian samples and compared against previous

SUBMITTER: Weis CN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8702580 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature