• Psycho-oncology · May 2010

    Posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in cancer: psychometric analysis of the Spanish Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist-Civilian version.

    • Gema Costa-Requena and Francisco Gil.
    • Department of Psychiatry, Hospital of Mataró, Barcelona, Spain. gcosta@csdm.cat
    • Psychooncology. 2010 May 1;19(5):500-7.

    ObjectiveThe PTSD Checklist-Civilian version (PCL-C) was used as a screening tool to assess the presence of PTSD symptoms. The aim of this study was to explore the factorial structure of the Spanish version of the PCL-C and calculate the correlation of PTSD symptoms with distress and health-related quality of life.MethodThe sample included 494 cancer outpatients. In order to validate the PCL-C, a principal component analysis was applied. The association between variable was measured by Pearson correlation.ResultsFindings evidenced three symptoms clusters on the PCL-C version, defined as Hyperarousal/Re-experiencing, Numbing and Avoidance. About 10% of the total sample met clinical PTSD symptoms. In addition, PTSD symptoms were related negatively to health-related quality of life and positively related with distress.ConclusionThe conceptualization of PTSD symptoms for cancer patients is supported by the specific symptom clusters identified on PCL-C.Copyright 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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