Identifying Birth-Related PTSD: Cutoffs for the City Birth Trauma Scale

SCID-5 Clinician Version (SCID-5-CV) was used as gold standard method for determining if diagnostic criteria of PTSD was met or not (First, 2023). SCID-5-CV has been validated for use via telephone with good results for PTSD (Osorio et al., 2019). Only the PTSD-chapter was used, and exclusively birth-related traumatic experiences were considered. This was done achieved by adding a question to the interview guide, addressing potentially traumatic experiences associated with healthcare during a physical examination, operation, intensive care or childbirth.