| First Name |
Fentie |
| Last Name |
Ambaw |
| Email |
Not Available |
| Affiliation |
Department of Health Education and Behavioral Sciences, Jimma University |
| Other means of contacting author (e.g., website, Academia.edu, ResearchGate) |
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-fentie-ambaw-55766952 |
| Mental health assessment tool that was adapted/developed/validated |
The Amharic Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) – Amharic |
| Mental health condition assessed |
Anxiety and Depression |
| Idiom of distress included, if any |
Not Applicable |
| Lifestage of interest |
Childhood or Adolescence |
| Age range (age – age) |
11-15 |
| Country or countries where tool was developed/adapted/validated |
Ethiopia |
| Language(s) of the adapted/developed/validated tool |
Amharic |
| Clinical or community sample? |
Clinical |
| Subpopulation in which tool was developed/validated (e.g., tool was developed and tested among middle-class women)? |
Sample was drawn from 16 organizations working with orphans in Addis Ababa |
| Development procedures |
Culturally adapted |
| If validated, what was the gold standard? |
— |
| 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]) |
Psychometrics were assessed for the anxiety and depression subscales separately and alphas for the full scale were not assessed. The alpha coefficient for the depression subscale was 0.76 and the alpha for the anxiety subscale was 0.81. |
| Links to development/adaptation/validation studies and/or previous studies using the tool |
Ambaw, F. (2011). The Structure and Reliability of the Amharic Version of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale in Orphan Adolescents in Addis Ababa. Ethiopian Journal of Health Sciences, 21(1). doi:10.4314/ejhs.v21i1.69041 |
| Notes when administering the tool |
Given the age of the participants, the HADS was administered verbally to participants by trained research assistants with high school level education or higher. Each items on the HADS is scored from 0-3 points and a sum score is calculated by summing each item score with equal weight. |
