The Bosnian version of the international self-report measure of posttraumatic stress disorder, the Posttraumatic Stress Diagnostic Scale, is reliable and valid in a variety of different adult samples affected by war

Table 6 Item characteristics of the PTSD symptom items of the Bosnian PTDS

	sex
	female		male		total
	Mean	Standard Deviation	Mean	Standard Deviation	Mean	Standard Deviation
B1 intrusions	1.00	1.12	.76	1.00	.89	1.07
B2 bad dreams	.73	1.02	.57	.92	.65	.98
B3 reexperiencing	.70	.99	.53	.86	.62	.94
B4 upset after remembering	1.14	1.07	.89	1.01	1.02	1.04
B5 physical reaction after remembering	.95	1.09	.62	.92	.79	1.02
C1 attempt not to think about it	1.14	1.16	.83	1.06	.99	1.12
C2 avoiding places people	.86	1.13	.65	1.03	.76	1.09
C3 not being able to remember details	.40	.80	.33	.74	.36	.77
C4 less interest in activities	.66	.96	.51	.89	.59	.93
C5 detachment estrangement	.65	1.00	.50	.93	.58	.97
C6 restricted affect	.81	1.07	.50	.87	.66	.99
C7 foreshortened future	.79	1.08	.58	.95	.69	1.02
D1 difficulty falling or staying asleep	.92	1.11	.63	.96	.78	1.05
D2 irritability	.70	.94	.55	.88	.62	.92
D3 difficulty concentrating	.92	1.02	.68	.92	.80	.98
D4 hypervigilance	.55	.88	.40	.77	.48	.83
D5 exaggerated startle response	.75	.99	.42	.81	.60	.93
total score on subscale b (reexperiencing)	4.53	4.43	3.36	3.94	3.97	4.24
total score on subscale c (avoidance)	5.32	5.02	3.89	4.79	4.64	4.96
total score on subscale d (arousal)	3.82	3.77	2.67	3.44	3.28	3.66
total score on all symptom subscales	13.66	11.73	9.93	10.84	11.88	11.46

The items were scored on a scale of 0 (not at all or once a month) to 4 (5 or more times a week /almost always).

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