Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)- Nigeria
Information about Measure | |
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First Name | Abiodun |
Last Name | Adewuya |
Not Available | |
Affiliation | Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals |
Other means of contacting author (e.g., website, Academia.edu, ResearchGate) | — |
Mental health assessment tool that was adapted/developed/validated | Beck Depression Inventory for Nigerian Adolescents |
Mental health condition assessed | Depressive Disorders |
Idiom of distress included, if any | Not Applicable |
Lifestage of interest | Childhood or Adolescence |
Age range (age – age) | 13-18 |
Country or countries where tool was developed/adapted/validated | Nigeria |
Language(s) of the adapted/developed/validated tool | English |
Clinical or community sample? | Community |
Subpopulation in which tool was developed/validated (e.g., tool was developed and tested among middle-class women)? | Tool was tested among adolescents attending senior secondary schools |
Development procedures | validated |
If validated, what was the gold standard? | Validated using diagnosis of major depressive disorder (MDD) from psychiatric interviews |
Description of other development procedures, if applicable | — |
Cronbach’s alpha | 0.82 |
Sensitivity | 0.91 |
Spec | 0.97 |
Other information about tool (e.g., additional psychometrics [NPV, PPV, Youden’s index, diagnostic odds ratio]) | Additional psychometric properties include: PPV: 0.88, NPV: 0.98, and an AUC of 0.985. |
Links to development/adaptation/validation studies and/or previous studies using the tool | Adewuya AO, Ola BA, Aloba OO. Prevalence of major depressive disorders and a validation of the Beck Depression Inventory among Nigerian adolescents. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2007;16(5):287-292. doi:10.1007/s00787-006-0557-0 |
Notes when administering the tool | The BDI may be administered by a trained research assistant for written completion by the adolescents; however, the sample population’s literacy rate should be taken into account in future studies. All items on the inventory are scored from 0-3 and summed with equal weight, giving a maximum score of 63. A cut-off score of 18 points is advised. |