The Cambodian Somatic Symptom and Syndrome Inventory (CSSI)
| Information about Measure | |
|---|---|
| First Name | Devon |
| Last Name | Hinton |
| [email protected] | |
| Affiliation | Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital |
| Other means of contacting author (e.g., website, Academia.edu, ResearchGate) | — |
| Mental health assessment tool that was adapted/developed/validated | The Cambodian Somatic Symptom and Syndrome Inventory (CSSI) |
| Mental health condition assessed | Trauma- and Stressor-Related 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 | United States with Cambodian refugees |
| Language(s) of the adapted/developed/validated tool | Khmer |
| Clinical or community sample? | Clinical |
| Subpopulation in which tool was developed/validated (e.g., tool was developed and tested among middle-class women)? | United States with Cambodian refugees at a psychiatric clinic |
| Development procedures | Locally developed and culturally validated |
| If validated, what was the gold standard? | — |
| Description of other development procedures, if applicable | A list of somatic symptoms and cultural syndromes was compiled after long-term ethnographic and clinical work among Cambodian populations. From this list, tools were piloted and revised for enhanced clinical utility. |
| Cronbach’s alpha | — |
| Sensitivity | — |
| Spec | — |
| Other information about tool (e.g., additional psychometrics [NPV, PPV, Youden’s index, diagnostic odds ratio]) | For the somatic scale, the alpha was .91, and for the syndrome scale, .88, with the all the multi-item syndrome subscales having excellent internal consistency as well (all alphas > .84). |
| Links to development/adaptation/validation studies and/or previous studies using the tool | Hinton, D. E., Alexandra Kredlow, M., Pich, V., Bui, E., & Hofmann, S. G. (2013). The relationship of PTSD to key somatic complaints and cultural syndromes among Cambodian refugees attending a psychiatric clinic: The Cambodian Somatic Symptom and Syndrome Inventory (CSSI). Transcultural Psychiatry, 50(3), 347–370. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363461513481187 |
| Notes when administering the tool | The CSSI is meant to be used alongside other standardized assessment tools such as the PTSD Checklist (PCL). The tool should be administered verbally by a trained research assistant who is fluent in Khmer. |