Assessment of posttraumatic stress disorder among women after childbirth using the City Birth Trauma Scale in Spain.
Rafael A. Caparrós-González; Borja Romero‐Gonzalez; María Isabel Peralta‐Ramírez; Susan Ayers; Alejandro Galán-Paredes; Alfonso Caracuel; David Andrich
OBJECTIVE: Postpartum posttraumatic stress disorder (PP-PTSD) affects 3.1-6.3% of women after childbirth. The City Birth Trauma Scale (City-BiTS) is a questionnaire designed to evaluate and diagnose this disorder, according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.) criteria, including the following groups of symptoms characteristic of posttraumatic stress: reexperiencing, avoidance, negative cognitions and mood, and hyperarousal. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Spanish-language version of this questionnaire (City-BiTS-S), based on a community sample of Spanish women. METHOD: A total of 207 mothers, recruited at three health centers in southern Spain, completed the City-BiTS-S questionnaire and provided sociodemographic and obstetric data. RESULTS: Exploratory factor analysis of the data replicated the two-factor...
Rafael A. Caparrós-González, Borja Romero‐Gonzalez, María Isabel Peralta‐Ramírez, Susan Ayers, Alejandro Galán-Paredes, Alfonso Caracuel, & David Andrich (2021). Assessment of posttraumatic stress disorder among women after childbirth using the City Birth Trauma Scale in Spain.. Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy, 13(5), 545-554. https://doi.org/10.1037/tra0001007