Psychometric detection of fabricated symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder



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Am J Psychiatry 1985; 142:501-503
Copyright © 1985 by American Psychiatric Association

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Psychometric detection of fabricated symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder

JA Fairbank, RJ McCaffrey and TM Keane

Vietnam veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder and two groups instructed to fabricate its symptoms completed the MMPI. A discriminant function analysis of selected scale scores and an empirically derived decision rule successfully classified over 90% of the subjects.

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