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Evaluation of an Urdu version of the Impact of Event Scale - Revised

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

M. S. Tareen ,
C. McDowell ,
K. Naqvi ,
A. Bashir ,
P. Keenan ,
Aziz ur Rehman  and
D. P. Farrell
M. S. Tareen
Affiliation:
Causeway Hospital, Coleraine, Northern Ireland, email Saleem.Tareen@northerntrust.hscni.net
C. McDowell
Affiliation:
Clinical Research Support Centre (CM), Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, UK
K. Naqvi
Affiliation:
Rawalpindi, Pakistan
A. Bashir
Affiliation:
Elm Park Brain Injury Services, Ardleigh, Essex, UK
P. Keenan
Affiliation:
Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, Lancashire, UK
Aziz ur Rehman
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Ayub Medical College, Abbottabad, Pakistan
D. P. Farrell
Affiliation:
University of Birmingham, UK
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In the aftermath of the major earthquake that hit Pakistan in 2005, there appeared to be a paucity of psychometric tools validated in Urdu. It was decided to translate the Impact of Event Scale - Revised (IES-R) so as to obtain an internationally validated and recognised psychometric tool for use in research into post-traumatic stress disorder. The resulting Urdu and English versions of the IES-R were compared for linguistic, conceptual and scale equivalence. The Urdu version of the IES-R (UIES-R) can be used for clinical, psychological trauma populations in Pakistan with evidence of good reliability and satisfactory validity. In trauma research in Pakistan the UIES-R will be an extremely useful psychometric tool.

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International Psychiatry , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , February 2012 , pp. 20 - 22
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Footnotes

We would like to thank: D. Weiss for permission to use the IES-R and GL Assessment for permission to use the GHQ-28; EMDR Europe HAP Project Pakistan for providing financial resources for the project; EMDR trainees for assisting in the Urdu translation; the Medical School, Abbottabad, Pakistan, for allowing data collection to take place; and the School's students for their invaluable participation.

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