2. INTRODUCTION
The Detailed Assessment of Posttraumatic Stress (DAPS) provides
detailed information about an individual’s symptomatic responses to
a specific traumatic event.
The detail assessment of post traumatic is 104 item test of trauma
exposure and post traumatic response.
designed for use with individual who have undergone a
. significant psychological stressor
3. The DAPS has two validity scale and evaluates a range of trauma relevant parameter
including the following lifetime exposure to traumatic event.
Immediate cognitive emotional and dissociative response to a specified trauma the
systems of PTSD and acute stress disorder.
4. DAPS Materials
The DAPS material consist of professional manual the reusable four
page item booklet the hand scoreble carbonless answer sheet and
male and female profile .
The first page of the item booklet contain instruction for completing
the DAPS and example for marking response
5. DAPS Materials……
The remaining page contain 104 DAPS items.
answer sheet include area for recording basic
demographic information
The answer sheet is designed to be hand scored by
the examiner.
6. Appropriate population
THE DAPS HAS BEEN STANDARDIZED ON TRAUMA
EXPOSED MEN AND WOMEN FROM THE GENERAL
POPULATION AGE 18 YEAR AND OLDER
RESULT OF ITEM READABILITY ANALYSIS INDICATE
THAT A SIXTH GRADE READING LEVEL IS REQUIRED TO
COMPLETE THE DAPS.
7. Professional Requirement
The DAPS can be administered and scored by individual who
have no formal training in clinical psychology counseling or
related field.
8. Administration
Testing environment should be relatively quiet free from distraction
and adequately illuminated.
The testing environment should protect the privacy and
confidentiality of each individual responses.
Material required for administration are the DAPS and require
approximately 20 to 30 minutes to complete for individual.
9. Specific Instruction:
First please fill out the information requested at the top of answer
sheet when you are done read the instruction on the top page of
item booklet
Answer item as honestly as you can. You can take as much time
as need to finishing.
10. Scoring
Tear off the perforated strip along each side of the two part
carbonless DAPS answer sheet and remove the top sheet to reveal
the scoring sheet.
The back side of this sheet contain the scoring area for part 3 and
PTSD and ASD diagnostic work are of DAPS
11. Examine the scoring sheet for item with missing response (including
item 14) and place an asterisk next to these item number.
After all unanswered item have been marked count the number asterisk
and enter this sum in the space labeled
Total missing at the bottom left of the scoring sheet if the total missing
sum is 10 or more the DAPS should be considered invalid if the sum is
less than 10 proceed with scoring.
12. If the individual has not responded to every items count the number of missing
response for each scale if there are more two item with missing response with RET
RE AV AR DTS-T PB NB SUB OR SUI scale or more than one item with a missing
response on any other scale a score for the scale should not be calculated.
Calculating Scores with missing Response
13. Otherwise assign a value of 1 for missing response when
calculating raw scale score including PB and NB scale
However when calculating the RTE scale score for protocol
with two or fewer missing response treat each miss response
14. Interpretation
T score are used to interpret the respondent level of symptomtology
on the DAPS .These score are linear transformation of raw scale
score derived to have a mean of 50 and standard deviation of 10.
Similar to percent score T score provide information about of
participant in normative sample.
