Assessing post-traumatic stress disorder in South African adolescents: using the child and adolescent trauma survey (CATS) as a screening tool

Table 5 Levels of agreement for comparable PTSD symptoms

PTSD Symptom				95% Confidence Interval
		Observed Kappa	Standard Error	Lower Limit	Upper Limit
Recurrent thoughts or images of event	(i)	0.02	0.14	-0.31	0.26
	(ii)	-0.57	0.22	-1.01	-0.13
	(iii)	0.01	0.18	-0.33	0.35
Trying not to think about the event	(i)	0.25	0.13	-0.003	0.51
	(ii)	-0.14	0.56	-1.24	0.96
	(iii)	0.07	0.17	-0.26	0.41
Sleep problems	(i)	0.44	0.15	0.15	0.72
	(ii)	0.61	0.25	0.11	1
	(iii)	0.16	0.23	-0.3	0.62
Anger and irritability	(i)	0.24	0.14	-0.05	0.52
	(ii)	0.24	0.3	-0.35	0.83
	(iii)	0.13	0.19	-0.24	0.49
Distress at reminders of event	(i)	0.48	0.16	0.17	0.79
	(ii)	0.44	0.28	-0.1	0.98
	(iii)	0.17	0.29	-0.4	0.74
Exaggerated startle response	(i)	0.39	0.15	0.09	0.68
	(ii)	0.3	0.35	-0.38	0.98
	(iii)	0	0.3	-0.59	0.59
Nightmares	(i)	0.2	0.23	-0.26	0.65
	(ii)	0.23	0.26	-0.28	0.73
	(iii)	-0.05	0.45	-0.93	0.82
Difficulty concentrating	(i)	0.19	0.17	-0.04	0.51
	(ii)	0.35	0.26	-0.15	0.86
	(iii)	0.03	0.23	-0.41	0.48
Efforts to avoid reminders of event	(i)	0.27	0.15	-0.03	0.56
	(ii)	-0.31	0.3	-0.89	0.28
	(iii)	0.34	0.18	-0.02	0.7

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