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We agree with Drs Kaloupek and Newman. Posttraumatic stress disorder is an important disorder to assess. Unfortunately, our instrument, the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children (DISC) 2.3, did not include a module on PTSD. The DISC-IV PTSD module became available 13 months after our study began; thus, we could assess PTSD in only 898 of our 1829 subjects.

We had considered including PTSD in the article. However, we decided to exclude it for 3 reasons:

• (1) Lack of comparability. The DISC-IV PTSD module generates diagnoses within the past year; the DISC 2.3 generates diagnoses within the past 6 months.
  
• (2) Clarity. Because we assessed PTSD in only a subsample, the tables would be confusing to the reader. Our tables had included the summary categories, "any of the listed disorders" and "any except conduct disorder," which presume that diagnoses are available for all cases.
  
• (3) Depth. The . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Karen M. Abram, PhD; Gary M. McClelland, PhD; Mina K. Dulcan, MD
Chicago

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