Questionnaires
The City Birth Trauma Scale can be used in healthcare or research to examine traumatic birth, post-traumatic stress symptoms and clinical disorder in women, birth partners or maternity staff. The scale has 29 questions and measures PTSD according to the diagnostic criteria of the DSM-5 published by the American Psychiatric Association in 2013 and the DSM-5 revision in 2022. It has been translated into over 30 languages. A short version and training resources will be available from January 2025.
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The City Birth Trauma Scale is free to use in clinical practice or research under a Creative Commons license. Copies can be downloaded using the links below.​​​
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Conditions Of Use
If you use the scale please do not alter any of the wording without permission and make sure the City University of London logo is on the first page. The scale is available open-access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original authors and the copyright owners are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. Copyright © 2018 Ayers, Wright and Thornton.