Table 1 Items on the Casualty Chain Inventory at the scene of the injury and in the hospital * (means, correlations, and internal consistency)
At scene of injury | In the hospital | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Item | Score | Correlation Between Item Score and Total Score | Item | Score | Correlation Between Item Score and Total Score | |||
Item description; | ||||||||
Rate the extent to which you | n | Mean | SD | n | Mean | SD | ||
1. were afraid | 300 | 2.9 | 1.4 | .62 | 307 | 2.3 | 1.2 | .62 |
2. had severe pain | 302 | 3.5 | 1.3 | .47 | 306 | 3.2 | 1.2 | .48 |
3. had severe visual impressions | 301 | 2.3 | 1.2 | .67 | 304 | 2.1 | 1.7 | .71 |
4. had severe auditory impressions | 300 | 2.1 | 1.2 | .66 | 303 | 2.0 | 1.1 | .75 |
5. had severe olfactory impressions | 298 | 1.6 | .9 | .52 | 305 | 1.7 | .9 | .63 |
6. felt emotionally stuck | 298 | 3.0 | 1.5 | .56 | 305 | 2.8 | 1.4 | .59 |
7. felt as if the situation was unreal | 302 | 2.7 | 2.1 | .45 | 306 | 2.4 | 1.3 | .50 |
8. felt emotional numbness | 303 | 2.6 | 1.4 | .49 | 304 | 2.2 | 1.3 | .59 |
Correlation between scene of injury and in hospital = .69 | ||||||||
Cronbach's alpha | .83 | .85 | ||||||