Critical Incident Scale The Acute Stress Disorder Scale is used during the first four weeks post critical incident to help indicate the possibility of developing traumatic symptoms.
| ACUTE STRESS DISORDER SCALE (ASDS) If the experience frighten you please answer each of these questions about how you have felt since the incident: | ||||||
| Not At All | Mildly | Medium | Quite a Bit | Very Much | ||
| 1.During or after the trauma, did you ever feel numb or distant from your emotions? | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 2. During or after the trauma, did you ever feel in a daze? | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 3. During or after the trauma, did things around you ever feel unreal or dreamlike? | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 4. During or after the trauma, did you ever feel distant from your normal self or like you were watching it happen from outside? | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 5. Have you been unable to recall important aspects of the trauma? | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 6. Have memories of the trauma kept entering your mind? | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 7. Have you had bad dreams or nightmares of the trauma? | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 8. Have you felt as if the trauma is about to happen again? | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
9. Do you feel very upset when you are reminded of the trauma? | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
10. Have you tried not to think about the trauma? | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 11. Have you tried not to talk about the trauma? | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
12. Have you tried to avoid situations or people that remind you of the trauma? | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
13. Have you tried not to feel upset of distressed about the trauma? | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
14. Have you had trouble sleeping since the trauma? | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
15. Have you felt more irritable since the trauma? | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
16. Have you had difficulty concentrating since the trauma? | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
17. Have you become more alert to danger since the trauma? | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
18. Have you become jumpy since the trauma? | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
19. When you are reminded of the trauma, do you sweat or tremble or does your heart beat faster? | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Hi
this ASDS is awesome thank you. Is there further information provided on the evaluation process and response criteria?
Hi,
In my previous workplace I had an incident occur whereby the nature of it can only be described as sexual harassment. I have since left that job and started a new position in an entirely different workplace. It has been a number of months of being in a new role, however I am aware that i have not left the effects of the incident behind. As I have discovered from taking the ASDS, there is a signs of trauma that I am possibly dealing with – my score tallied 79. I think this may be the reason why I feel jumpy and uneasy in my new role, even though I have such a supportive Boss and team.