![]() ![]() Correlation analyses showed convergent validity of the City BiTS (total scale and subscales) with the IES-R and PCL-5 and divergent validity with the EPDS and the DASS-Anxiety. In a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) in the holdout sample the two-factorial solution reached the best model fit out of three models. Internal consistency was good to excellent for the subscales and the total scale (Cronbach's Alpha = 0.89−0.92). The factors “Childbirth-related symptoms” and “General symptoms” explained about 53%, 52% of variance. Results: Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) on a random split-half sample confirmed the previously reported two-factorial structure of the City BiTS. Methods: A community sample of 1,072 mothers completed an online survey, which included questions on sociodemographic and obstetric characteristics, the German version of the City BiTS, the Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IES-R), the PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5), Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS), and the anxiety subscale of the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS-Anxiety). Since no questionnaire on childbirth-related PTSD is available in German, we aimed to validate a German translation of the City BiTS and to provide information on its psychometric properties. Surprisingly, the recently developed City Birth Trauma Scale (City BiTS) was the first diagnostic tool for childbirth-related PTSD covering DSM-5 criteria for PTSD. 7Faculty of Medicine, Institute and Policlinic of Occupational and Social Medicine, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germanyīackground: About 3–4% of women in community samples suffer from childbirth-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).6Department of Child Health and Development, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway.5Institute for Systems Medicine (ISM), Faculty of Human Medicine, Medical School Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany. ![]() 4Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.3Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Immunobiology, Center for Translational Neuro- and Behavioral Sciences, University Hospital Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.2Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Psychologische Hochschule Berlin, Berlin, Germany.1Psychology School, Hochschule Fresenius - University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.Tobias Weigl 1 Franziska Marie Lea Beck-Hiestermann 2 Nikola Maria Stenzel 2 Sven Benson 3 Manfred Schedlowski 3,4 Susan Garthus-Niegel 5,6,7 * ![]()
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