We began incorporating mental health screening tools using the Life Events Checklist-5 (LEC-5) and the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Checklist for Civilians (PCL-C) to assess symptomatology that may be related to traumatic life events.
Validity of LEC-5 was checked by the correlational analysis between the LEC-5 scales and the PTSD Diagnostic Scale for DSM-5 (PDS-5) and the Impact of Events Scale (IES) on the whole 172 sample of students.
The Life Events Checklist for DSM-5 (LEC-5) was administered as a prelude to the PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5) to assess for exposure to a Criterion A event.