TY - JOUR
T1 - Validation of the Global Psychotrauma Screen for adolescents in Greece
AU - Koutsopoulou, Ioanna
AU - Grace, Emma
AU - Gkintoni, Evgenia
AU - Olff, Miranda
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2024 Elsevier Masson SAS
PY - 2024/3/1
Y1 - 2024/3/1
N2 - Introduction: Adolescents are vulnerable to traumatic exposure. However, there is a lack of developmentally appropriate, freely accessible, transdiagnostic screening instruments for trauma in adolescents. The purpose of this study was to examine the psychometric potential of the Global Psychotrauma Screen Teen version (GPS-T) for the assessment of traumatic, dissociative, and other transdiagnostic symptoms among adolescents in Greece. Method: This observational study was conducted with adolescents in Greece (N = 122) who completed a 55-item questionnaire. Results: The results supported satisfactory internal consistency reliability, convergent validity, and divergent validity of the GPS-T. The construct validity findings suggested a three-factor structure of the GPS-T symptoms. The GPS-T domains had acceptable sensitivity and specificity with the cut-off scores of 3 for PTSD and 2 for the dissociation, anxiety, and depression domains respectively. The GPS-T symptoms differed on four levels of severity. Conclusion: The findings suggest that the GPS-T is appropriate for screening of traumatic, dissociative, and other transdiagnostic symptoms among adolescents in Greece. Future research should conduct a replication with larger samples and a test-retest phase.
AB - Introduction: Adolescents are vulnerable to traumatic exposure. However, there is a lack of developmentally appropriate, freely accessible, transdiagnostic screening instruments for trauma in adolescents. The purpose of this study was to examine the psychometric potential of the Global Psychotrauma Screen Teen version (GPS-T) for the assessment of traumatic, dissociative, and other transdiagnostic symptoms among adolescents in Greece. Method: This observational study was conducted with adolescents in Greece (N = 122) who completed a 55-item questionnaire. Results: The results supported satisfactory internal consistency reliability, convergent validity, and divergent validity of the GPS-T. The construct validity findings suggested a three-factor structure of the GPS-T symptoms. The GPS-T domains had acceptable sensitivity and specificity with the cut-off scores of 3 for PTSD and 2 for the dissociation, anxiety, and depression domains respectively. The GPS-T symptoms differed on four levels of severity. Conclusion: The findings suggest that the GPS-T is appropriate for screening of traumatic, dissociative, and other transdiagnostic symptoms among adolescents in Greece. Future research should conduct a replication with larger samples and a test-retest phase.
KW - Adolescents
KW - Dissociation
KW - Global Psychotrauma Screen
KW - Screening
KW - Trauma
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ejtd.2024.100384
DO - 10.1016/j.ejtd.2024.100384
M3 - Article
SN - 2468-7499
VL - 8
JO - european journal of trauma and dissociation
JF - european journal of trauma and dissociation
IS - 1
M1 - 100384
ER -