a clinician-administered assessment of PTSD, which many view as the gold standard for PTSD assessment, but clinician interviews are impractical and not the norm for large-scale epidemiologic studies. The use of a highly structured self-administered survey measuring traumatic event exposure and PTSD symptoms mitigates this limitation, but future research is needed that examines the concordance between diagnoses according to the DSM-5 criteria using the National Stressful Events Survey assessment procedure and approach with those obtained by clinicians using semistructured clinical interviews.
