Primary Care PTSD Screen for DSM-5 (PC-PTSD-5)

A trauma-exposure gate followed, when endorsed, by five past-month yes-or-no PTSD symptom screening questions. The 0-to-5 total is not a diagnosis or severity scale. Read more.

If you have experienced a traumatic event, please answer the following questions about how you have been affected in the past month.

Free, no account needed. Your score appears when you finish.

1. Sometimes things happen to people that are unusually or especially frightening, horrible, or traumatic. For example: a serious accident or fire; a physical or sexual assault or abuse; an earthquake or flood; a war; seeing someone be killed or seriously injured; having a loved one die through homicide or suicide. Have you ever experienced this kind of event?

Notes for yourself (optional)

Only you see these. They are saved only if you create an account and save this result, and providers you later share your results with can read saved notes.

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Source: Prins, A., Bovin, M. J., Kimerling, R., Kaloupek, D. G., Marx, B. P., Pless Kaiser, A., & Schnurr, P. P. (2016). Primary Care PTSD Screen for DSM-5 (PC-PTSD-5) [Measurement instrument]. Available from www.ptsd.va.gov. If you hold the rights to a questionnaire on Survey Doctor, please contact us.