17 3. Clinican Administered Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Scales: The Clinican Administered Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Scale (CAPS) is a recently developed instrument for the assessment of PTSD (48). The instrument has been shown to have good validity and reliability (49-50), and reviews have suggested that the instrument may be preferred to other instruments for the assessment of PTSD. The psychometric properties of the instrument have additionally been shown to be acceptable (58). MEASURES TAKEN: Demographic data, information about the experience of organised violence and torture, and measures of psychiatric morbidity were compiled. These data are reported descriptively below. A number of additional measures were developed from the questionnaires administered, based on certain factors shown to be important in other studies. 1. Violence frequency(Violfre) The total number of discrete episodes of organised violence experienced by a person. 2. Impact torture(Impactor) The total number of different types of physical torture and deprivation 3. Psychological torture(Psychtor) The total number of different types of psychological torture and sensory overstimulation experienced by a person. 4. Witnessing of violence(Witness) The total number of different types of organised violence witnessed by a person. 5. Other family survivors(Othfam) The total number of other family members who also experienced an experience of organised violence. 6. Disapparances(Disapp) The total number of family members who disappeared during the war. A person is defined as disappeared if the family has not buried the person and the whereabouts of the dead person's grave is unknown. experienced by a person.