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ArticleEuropean journal of psychotraumatology2025

Beyond one-cutoff-fits-all: determining cutoff values for the PTSD checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5).

Amelie Pettrich, Julia Schellong, Anne Dyer, Thomas Ehring, Christine Knaevelsrud, Antje Krüger-Gottschalk, Yuriy Nesterko, Ingo Schäfer, Heide Glaesmer

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Article in European journal of psychotraumatology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Amelie PettrichDepartment of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0009-0007-6368-7486
Julia SchellongDepartment of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-7614-3225
Anne DyerCentral Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany.
Thomas EhringDepartment of Psychology, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-9502-6868
Christine KnaevelsrudDepartment for Clinical Psychological Intervention, Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Antje Krüger-GottschalkInstitute of Psychology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-3095-4732
Yuriy NesterkoDepartment of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
Ingo SchäferCentre for Interdisciplinary Addiction Research, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
Heide GlaesmerDepartment of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-3752-7653

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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ChecklistDiagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental DisordersPsychiatric Status Rating ScalesStress Disorders, Post-TraumaticAdultFemaleGermanyHumansMalePrevalenceReproducibility of ResultsSensitivity and Specificityanálisis ROCclinical samplecutoff scoresdiagnóstico del TEPTestimación de la prevalenciamuestra clínicaPCL-5prevalence estimationpropiedades psicométricaspsychometric propertiesPTSD diagnosispuntuaciones de corteROC analysissensibilidad y especificidadsensitivity and specificity

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PMCPMC12210402

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