ASSESSING PTSD WITH THE MILLON CLINICAL MULTIAXIAL INVENTORY-III

We studied the utility of the Millon Clinical Multiaxial inventory-ill (MCMI-III) in assessing substance-abusing (n = 228), combat-related P TSD patients (n = 32). The MCMI-III produced a code type (16A) that wa s quite different from MCMI-I and MCMI-II code types (8A2) among simil ar populations. The PTSD Scale (R) successfully differentiated between a PTSD and non-PTSD substance-abusing group using mean Base Rate scor es, 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 t han the values reported in the test manual for that scale. The MCMI-II I may be used as a broad band screening instrument for PTSD. at least among patients with combat-related stress. (C) 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.