| First Name |
Charlotte |
| Last Name |
Hanlon |
| Email |
charlotte.hanlon@kcl.ac.uk |
| Affiliation |
King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry |
| Other means of contacting author (e.g., website, Academia.edu, ResearchGate) |
— |
| Mental health assessment tool that was adapted/developed/validated |
Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS)- Ethiopian Version |
| Mental health condition assessed |
Depressive 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 |
Ethiopia |
| Language(s) of the adapted/developed/validated tool |
Amharic |
| Clinical or community sample? |
Community |
| Subpopulation in which tool was developed/validated (e.g., tool was developed and tested among middle-class women)? |
Perinatal women in rural Ethiopia |
| Development procedures |
validated,culturally-adapted |
| If validated, what was the gold standard? |
The gold standard measure of perinatal CMD used in this assessment was full psychiatric assessment by one of four Ethiopian psychiatry trainees |
| Description of other development procedures, if applicable |
— |
| Cronbach’s alpha |
0.47 |
| Sensitivity |
0.77 |
| Spec |
0.36 |
| Other information about tool (e.g., additional psychometrics [NPV, PPV, Youden’s index, diagnostic odds ratio]) |
Additionally, area under the curve (AUC) was 0.62 (95%CI 0.49 to 0.76). |
| Links to development/adaptation/validation studies and/or previous studies using the tool |
Hanlon, C., Medhin, G., Alem, A., Araya, M., Abdulahi, A., Hughes, M., . . . Prince, M. (2008). Detecting perinatal common mental disorders in Ethiopia: Validation of the self-reporting questionnaire and Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale. Journal of Affective Disorders, 108(3), 251-262. doi:10.1016/j.jad.2007.10.023 |
| Notes when administering the tool |
The EPDS should be administered as a verbal interview, with appropriate probing of responses to items which require repetition, appear to to be understood, or are answered affirmatively. All interviews should be conducted by trained research assistants. |