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Although we are working on a number of areas, it would go well beyond our limited person power to describe our line of thinking, or send out preliminary copies of tables or papers. Q: In the NCS-R was the participant’s worst event or random event used in the PTSD diagnosis using the DSM definition?

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Although we are working on a number of areas, it would go well beyond our limited person power to describe our line of thinking, or send out preliminary copies of tables or papers. Q: In the NCS-R was the participant’s worst event or random event used in the PTSD diagnosis using the DSM definition?

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Actually both the worst and the random event were used in the DSM definition of PTSD. Please see the PTSD.doc verbal explanation of the disorder coding under www.hcp.harvard.med.edu/ncs and then the link “diagnosis” on the left side of the webpage. The worst and random events were used in the formulation of the disorder variable dsm_pts by using “or” type of logic. Then, following the verbal description on our website you can see how the parts fit together using either the random event or the worst event. Q: I recently downloaded the NCS-R data set from the ICPSR website. I believe the download was successful but I’ve encountered one problem that I’m hoping you could solve. When I ran the SPSS syntax file to create an SPSS data file, the diagnostic information was not there. All the variable labels and variable names were present for all variables (including the diagnostic information) but there was no actual diagnostic data present. However, all the data from parts I and II were prese

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