Assessing PTSD with the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III

✍ Scribed by Robert J. Craig; Ronald Olson

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 86 KB
• Volume: 53
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9762
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4679(199712)53:8<943::aid-jclp20>3.0.co;2-j

✦ Synopsis

We studied the utility of the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III (MCMI-III) in assessing substance-abusing (n ϭ 228), combat-related PTSD patients (n ϭ 32). The MCMI-III produced a code type (16A) that was quite different from MCMI-I and MCMI-II code types (8A2) among similar populations. The PTSD Scale (R) successfully differentiated between a PTSD and non-PTSD substance-abusing group using mean Base Rate scores, was the best predictor of PTSD in a multiple regression equation, and the scale's sensitivity and specificity in detecting and/or ruling out the disorder was above that provided by chance alone and higher than the values reported in the test manual for that scale. The MCMI-III may be used as a broad band screening instrument for PTSD, at least among patients with combat-related stress.