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National Center for PTSD

Assessment Instruments Most Commonly Used in Articles Indexed in the PILOTS Database

(Instruments used 100 times or more, in descending order of occurrence, as of April 2005)

Impact of Event Scale (Horowitz et al)* 1723

Beck Depression Inventory (Beck et al) 1114

Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R (Spitzer et al) 819

Clinician Administered PTSD Scale (Blake et al) 791

Mississippi Scale for Combat-Related PTSD (Keane et al) 714

State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (Spielberger et al) 630

Symptom Checklist 90 Revised (Derogatis et al) 613

Dissociative Experiences Scale (Bernstein and Putnam) 489

Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (First et al) 471

General Health Questionnaire (Goldberg) 456

Child Behavior Checklist (Achenbach and Edelbrock) 419

Symptom Checklist 90 (Derogatis et al) 264

Brief Symptom Inventory (Derogatis and Spencer) 352

NIMH Diagnostic Interview Schedule (Robins et al) 337

Conflict Tactics Scales (Straus) 303

Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (Hamilton) 285

PTSD Reaction Index (Frederick) 251

PTSD Symptom Scale (Foa et al) 232

Combat Exposure Scale (Keane et al) 221

Center for Epidemiologic Studies - Depression Scale (Radloff) 215

PTSD Checklist - Civilian (Weathers et al) 212

Hopkins Symptom Checklist (Derogatis et al) 198

MMPI-PTSD Subscale (Keane et al) 197

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (Butcher et al) 198

Composite International Diagnostic Interview (Robins et al) 172

Beck Anxiety Inventory (Beck et al) 171

MOS Short-Form General Health Survey 166

Children's Depression Inventory (Kovacs) 154

Self-Esteem Scale (Rosenberg) 143

Hamilton Rating Scale for Anxiety (Hamilton) 141

Posttraumatic Stress Diagnostic Scale (Foa) 141

Harvard Trauma Questionnaire (Mollica et al) 127

Rorschach Inkblot Test (Rorschach) 123

MMPI-2 PTSD Subscale (Keane et al) 115

Subjective Anxiety Scale (Wolpe) 110

PTSD Interview (Watson et al) 109

Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (Zigmond and Snaith) 103

Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (Wechsler) 102

Addiction Severity Index (McLellan et al) 101

Family Environment Scale (Moos and Moos) 101

* includes Impact of Event Scale - Revised