A pilot study adapting and validating the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire (HTQ) and PTSD checklist-5 (PCL-5) with Indian women from slums reporting gender-based violence

Table 4 Descriptive statistics, psychometric properties, and symptom frequency of the idioms of distress scale (N = 99)

Item	M	SD	Cronbach's Alpha if item deleted	Corrected item-total correlation	Skew
Tension	2.83	1.17	0.77	0.54	− 1.62
Believing that this was destined to happen and written in your stars	2.66	1.10	0.78	0.43	− 0.49
Sar mein garmi (heat in the head/headache)	2.59	1.06	0.78	0.46	− 0.02
Dil mein udasi (sadness in your heart)	2.51	1.18	0.76	0.63	0.06
Chakkar (dizziness)	2.14	1.05	0.77	0.55	2.32
Dizziness when standing up	2.07	1.09	0.77	0.52	2.55
Fear of others learning about this hurtful experience	1.90	1.18	0.77	0.50	3.50*
Feeling that you are a burden on your family	1.86	1.22	0.78	0.44	3.94*
Feeling that you brought shame on your family	1.70	1.16	0.78	0.42	5.34*
Safed pani (vaginal discharge)	1.42	0.73	0.79	0.35	6.52*
Nas mein dard (pain in the nerves)	1.55	1.03	0.79	0.27	6.74*
Believing that you deserved what happened because you are a woman	1.36	0.76	0.81	0.06	8.19*

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