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PTSD Screening Questionnaire Test

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Designed for a quick check of post-traumatic stress reactions, the PTSD Screening Questionnaire Test contains 10 yes-or-no questions and takes about 2 minutes. Your result indicates the apparent severity of symptoms, helping you notice patterns in the reactions reported in your answers and decide whether further reflection may be useful.
Questions: 102 minutes
PTSD Screening Questionnaire Test: sample question card
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How the Scales are Structured

PTSD Symptom SeverityPSS
Measures the severity of key post-traumatic stress symptoms such as intrusions and physiological arousal for rapid screening.
example score3/10
3/10Within normal rangeexample score
0 – 5Within normal range
6 – 10Elevated risk
A score of 3 falls within the normal range, suggesting low levels of screened PTSD-related symptoms at this time.
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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS

Who Usually Takes This Test?

Recent trauma survivors
41%OF USERS
People who went through an accident, assault, disaster, or loss use it to quickly check for intrusive memories and heightened arousal since the event.
First-time therapy seekers
34%OF USERS
People considering counseling take it to see whether their sleep issues, irritability, and flashbacks could warrant a deeper trauma-focused evaluation.
Clinician intake screeners
25%OF USERS
Healthcare and support staff use it during initial intake or crisis support to decide whether someone should be referred for further assessment.
BASED ON AGGREGATED, ANONYMIZED DATA FROM TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FREUDLY USERS.
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PTSD Symptom ScalePSS
You?
Average5
Typical rangeTypical3.7 – 6.3
Possible0 – 10
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SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Example Questions From the Test

This questionnaire concerns your personal reactions to a traumatic event that happened to you. Listed below are some reactions that people sometimes experience after a traumatic event. Please answer “Yes” if you experienced the following symptoms at least twice during the past week.
    • Yes
    • No
    • Yes
    • No
    • Yes
    • No
These are 3 of the 10 real questions — the rest appear in the test. No sign-up needed to start.
WHAT THE TEST MEASURES

PTSD Screening Questionnaire Test - Description and methodology of the test

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People who have experienced a frightening, threatening, or overwhelming event may use the PTSD Screening Questionnaire Test to organize concerns about post-traumatic stress reactions. It is intended for anyone who wants a focused look at symptoms involving memories, arousal, sleep, concentration, and responses to reminders. As a PTSD symptom screening, it offers a quick orientation for deciding which experiences deserve closer attention.

What This Assessment Explores

The questions focus on experiences that can follow trauma rather than on general mood. They cover unwanted memories, dreams, reliving, distress or physical reactions to reminders, sleep, irritability, concentration, danger awareness, tension, and startle. As a post-traumatic stress questionnaire, it shows how prominent the reactions reported in your answers are.

The result reflects reported symptom severity, not personality or cause.

The questions represent these themes, which contribute to one overall severity result:

  • Intrusive re-experiencing covers unwanted memories, dreams, or reliving.
  • Reminder-related distress captures emotional or physical upset after cues.
  • Arousal and reactivity reflects tension, anger, startle, and danger awareness.
  • Sleep and concentration difficulties show effects on rest and focus.
  • PTSD Symptom Severity runs 0-10; results are Within normal range (0-5) or Elevated risk (6-10), and scores of 6 or higher may indicate PTSD risk and warrant additional evaluation.

Methodology and Scientific Basis

Each statement presents a recognizable reaction and asks for a yes-or-no response. The format keeps the task direct: the respondent indicates whether the experience applies, while the result summarizes the pattern on the displayed severity scale. The response choices alone do not show how much weight any individual answer receives, so no extra point rule should be inferred from them.

The closest published instrument is the Trauma Screening Questionnaire, whose brief screening approach matches the focus on intrusive experiences, arousal, and trauma reminders. Validation studies by Walters and colleagues and by Brewin and colleagues examined related screening performance in assault survivors and people affected by the 2005 London bombings. This PTSD screening tool is an online adaptation of that instrument; evidence for the published Trauma Screening Questionnaire does not automatically establish separate norms, reliability, or validity for this online version.

Self-report can be influenced by memory, current distress, interpretation, and willingness to disclose. The result is best used as a structured prompt for broader assessment rather than as a diagnosis.

Author: Brewin, C.
Literature:
  • Brewin, C. R., Rose, S., Andrews, B., Green, J., Tata, P., McEvedy, C., Turner, S., & Foa, E. B. (2002). Brief screening instrument for post-traumatic stress disorder. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 181(2), 158-162. 10.1192/bjp.181.2.158
  • Walters, J. T. R., Bisson, J. I., & Shepherd, J. P. (2007). Predicting post-traumatic stress disorder: Validation of the Trauma Screening Questionnaire in victims of assault. Psychological Medicine, 37(1), 143-150. 10.1017/S0033291706008658
  • Brewin, C. R., Fuchkan, N., Huntley, Z., & Scragg, P. (2010). Diagnostic accuracy of the Trauma Screening Questionnaire after the 2005 London bombings. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 23(3), 393-398. 10.1002/jts.20529

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