Posttraumatic stress symptoms in refugees: Assessments with the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire and the Hopkins Symptom Checklist-25 in different languages

The original versions of the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire and Hopkins Sympt oms Checklist-25 were written and subsequently validated in the Cambodian , Laotian, and Vietnamese languages. For use in a Dutch treatment center, wi th refugee patients mostly specking other languages, additional translation s were made. The objective of this study was examination of the psychometri c properties of some of these new translations, i.e., the Arabic, Farsi, Se rbo-Croatian, Russian, and English bilingual adaptations. It is concluded t hat the psychometric properties of both tests are adequate across those dif ferent cultures and are, in general, applicable to measure symptoms of depr ession, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder.