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The STRS (shortness of breath, tremulousness, racing heart, and sweating): A brief checklist for acute distress with panic-like autonomic indicators; development and factor structure
In response to requests about a clinical version for the STRS checklist
H. Stefan Bracha, VA National Center for PTSD Honolulu
31 March 2005
We were delighted to receive a large number of emails commenting on our STRS checklist. Several colleagues have asked if a briefer clinical version is available. Below is a link to a modest tentatively weighted clinical version, which was just published. It is available open access, full-text, on-line at
http://www.currentpsychiatry.com/
A research-based weighing of the STRS is currently being developed, but the above tentatively weighted version may serve in the interm for disaster aftermath screening.
Annals of General Psychiatry
In response to requests about a clinical version for the STRS checklist
31 March 2005
We were delighted to receive a large number of emails commenting on our STRS checklist. Several colleagues have asked if a briefer clinical version is available. Below is a link to a modest tentatively weighted clinical version, which was just published. It is available open access, full-text, on-line at
http://www.currentpsychiatry.com/
A research-based weighing of the STRS is currently being developed, but the above tentatively weighted version may serve in the interm for disaster aftermath screening.
H. Stefan Bracha, MD
Research Psychiatrist
VA National Center for PTSD Honolulu
Competing interests
None declared