Mental Health Assessment Inventory (MHAI)
| Information about Measure | |
|---|---|
| First Name | S. Benjamin |
| Last Name | Doty |
| [email protected] | |
| Affiliation | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health |
| Other means of contacting author (e.g., website, Academia.edu, ResearchGate) | — |
| Mental health assessment tool that was adapted/developed/validated | Mental Health Assessment Inventory (MHAI) |
| Mental health condition assessed | Common Mental Health Disorders |
| Idiom of distress included, if any | Not Applicable |
| Lifestage of interest | Adult (General) |
| Age range (age – age) | — |
| Country or countries where tool was developed/adapted/validated | Ukraine |
| Language(s) of the adapted/developed/validated tool | Russian |
| Clinical or community sample? | Community |
| Subpopulation in which tool was developed/validated (e.g., tool was developed and tested among middle-class women)? | Internally displaced persons in Ukraine. |
| Development procedures | Locally developed and validated |
| If validated, what was the gold standard? | The Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV-Research Version (SCID-IV-RV, 2010 revision) |
| Description of other development procedures, if applicable | — |
| Cronbach’s alpha | — |
| Sensitivity | — |
| Spec | — |
| Other information about tool (e.g., additional psychometrics [NPV, PPV, Youden’s index, diagnostic odds ratio]) | On the full MHAI scales, there were minor, if any, differences between the baseline and re-interview samples for PTS (α = 0.97 vs. 0.97), anxiety (α = 0.90 vs. 0.89), depression (α = 0.94 vs. 0.93). Test-retest reliability scores of the full MHAI scales are as follows: for post-traumatic stress (r = 0.87), depression (r = 0.84), and anxiety (r = 0.80). |
| Links to development/adaptation/validation studies and/or previous studies using the tool | Doty, S. B., Haroz, E. E., Singh, N. S., Bogdanov, S., Bass, J. K., Murray, L. K., Bolton, P. A. (2018). Adaptation and testing of an assessment for mental health and alcohol use problems among conflict-affected adults in Ukraine. Conflict and Health, 12(1). doi:10.1186/s13031-018-0169-6 |
| Notes when administering the tool | The tool should be administered verbally by trained research assistants.
Anyone interested in using this tool should inform Benjamin Doty about their intent to use it. Any reports or publications arising from use of the tool should acknowledge the Global Mental Health group at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health as well as the funder who supported initial development of the tool: the United States Agency for International Development Victims of Torture Fund Cooperative Agreement AID-OAA-LA-15-00003 and the National Institute of Mental Health T32MH103210.
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