Defining a screening tool for post-traumatic stress disorder in East Africa: a penalized regression approach

• Main Authors: Susan M. Meffert (Author), Muthoni A. Mathai (Author), Linnet Ongeri (Author), Thomas C. Neylan (Author), Daniel Mwai (Author), Dickens Onyango (Author), Dickens Akena (Author), Grace Rota (Author), Ammon Otieno (Author), Raymond R. Obura (Author), Josline Wangia (Author), Elizabeth Opiyo (Author), Peter Muchembre (Author), Dennis Oluoch (Author), Raphael Wambura (Author), Anne Mbwayo (Author), James G. Kahn (Author), Craig R. Cohen (Author), David E. Bukusi (Author), Gregory A. Aarons (Author), Rachel L. Burger (Author), Chengshi Jin (Author), Charles E. McCulloch (Author), Simon Njuguna Kahonge (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2024-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BackgroundScalable PTSD screening strategies must be brief, accurate and capable of administration by a non-specialized workforce.MethodsWe used PTSD as determined by the structured clinical interview as our gold standard and considered predictors sets of (a) Posttraumatic Stress Checklist-5 (PCL-5)...