Depression Self-Rating Scale (DSRS)
| Information about Measure | |
|---|---|
| First Name | Brandon |
| Last Name | Kohrt |
| [email protected] | |
| Affiliation | The George Washington University |
| Other means of contacting author (e.g., website, Academia.edu, ResearchGate) | — |
| Mental health assessment tool that was adapted/developed/validated | Depression Self-Rating Scale (DSRS) |
| Mental health condition assessed | Depressive Disorders |
| Idiom of distress included, if any | Not Applicable |
| Lifestage of interest | Childhood or Adolescence |
| Age range (age – age) | 11-15 years old |
| Country or countries where tool was developed/adapted/validated | Nepal |
| Language(s) of the adapted/developed/validated tool | Nepali |
| Clinical or community sample? | Community |
| Subpopulation in which tool was developed/validated (e.g., tool was developed and tested among middle-class women)? | Schoolchildren in 6th or 7th grade, many of whom may have experienced war-related trauma. This tool was developed through collaborations with local health workers and psychosocial counselors, and tested on 162 Nepali children. |
| Development procedures | Culturally adapted, validated, and locally developed |
| If validated, what was the gold standard? | Kiddie Scale for Affective Disorders and Schnizophrenea (K-SADS) and GAPD |
| Description of other development procedures, if applicable | — |
| Cronbach’s alpha | 0.67 |
| Sensitivity | 0.71 |
| Spec | 0.81 |
| Other information about tool (e.g., additional psychometrics [NPV, PPV, Youden’s index, diagnostic odds ratio]) | additional psychometric properties evaluated- PPV:0.36, NPV:0.95, AUC=0.82 psychometric properties for each item are included in the cited publication |
| Links to development/adaptation/validation studies and/or previous studies using the tool | Kohrt BA, Jordans MJ, Tol WA, Luitel NP, Maharjan SM, Upadhaya N. Validation of cross-cultural child mental health and psychosocial research instruments: adapting the Depression Self-Rating Scale and Child PTSD Symptom Scale in Nepal. BMC Psychiatry. 2011;11(1):127. Published 2011 Aug 4. doi:10.1186/1471-244X-11-127 |
| Notes when administering the tool | The tool should be administered orally by a trained research assistant. This tool aims to estimate the prevalence of MHPS-related disability among children. Based off of this study, the suggested cut-off for diagnosis identified is a score of greater than or equal to 14. |