The validity of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5) as screening instrument with Kurdish and Arab displaced populations living in the Kurdistan region of Iraq

Table 2 Performance of the PTSD diagnose by expert interviewers in relative to local interviewers using PCL-5 sum score

Statistic	PTSD criteria only	Cutoff score = 33	Cutoff score = 22	Cutoff score = 23	Cutoff score = 24
Sensitivity	.486	.46	.73	.82	.65
Specificity	.833	.877	.76	.70	.81
ODP	.66	.71	.74	.73	.73
Kappa	.266	.41	.48	.48	.47
p value	.007	.000	.000	.000	.000
Prevalence (%)	37.75	41.83	65.30	64.28	62.24

PTSD criteria only = DSM-5 diagnostic algorithm for PTSD. ODP overall diagnostic power. Cutoff score of 33 is an initial cutoff score [14]

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