The DSM-5 has revised the diagnostic criteria by increasing the number of overall symptoms from 17 to 20 and adding a fourth symptom cluster which essentially separated the avoidance and numbing symptoms into two separate groups (Pai, Suris & North, 2017). However, it was not possible to apply DSM-5 criteria to the PTSD section in SSAGA-IV; therefore we use and report the DSM-IV post-traumatic stress and PTSD criteria in this study.
