International Trauma Questionnaire ITQ

18 questions · 4 min

Hard events can leave traces: memories that keep coming back, constant alertness, a changed sense of yourself and of other people. The ITQ was built on the ICD-11 criteria and helps you see whether there are signs of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or complex PTSD.

How to answer

First, think of the hard experience that troubles you most: there is no need to describe it. In the first part, mark how much each problem has bothered you in the past month, from “not at all” to “extremely”. The second part is about how you usually feel, how you see yourself and how you relate to people. Taller bars mean a stronger reaction.

The questions are about what you go through, not about the event itself, and there is no need to describe it. If answering becomes hard, you can stop at any moment and come back later. If the event happened less than a month ago, the result cannot point to PTSD yet: strong reactions are natural in the first weeks.

The result is for information only. It is based only on your answers and may not describe you exactly. A test does not give a diagnosis. Please don’t diagnose yourself from a test result. Your answers are kept only on this device for 7 days, so you can continue later.

ITQ: M. Cloitre, M. Shevlin, C. Brewin and colleagues, 2018. Free to use. The English text is the original (with our change: you keep the event in mind but do not name it).