| First Name |
Sylvia |
| Last Name |
Kaaya |
| Email |
— |
| Affiliation |
Muhimnili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Department of Psychiatry |
| Other means of contacting author (e.g., website, Academia.edu, ResearchGate) |
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sylvia_Kaaya3 |
| Mental health assessment tool that was adapted/developed/validated |
Dar-es-Salaam Symptom Questionnaire (DSQ) |
| Mental health condition assessed |
Anxiety and Depression |
| Idiom of distress included, if any |
Numerous |
| Lifestage of interest |
Adult (General) |
| Age range (age – age) |
15-48 |
| Country or countries where tool was developed/adapted/validated |
Tanzania |
| Language(s) of the adapted/developed/validated tool |
Kiswahili |
| Clinical or community sample? |
Clinical |
| Subpopulation in which tool was developed/validated (e.g., tool was developed and tested among middle-class women)? |
Antenatal clinic attendees in Dar-es-Salaam |
| Development procedures |
locally-developed, validated, culturally-adapted |
| If validated, what was the gold standard? |
Hopkins Symptom Checklist (HSCL-25) |
| Description of other development procedures, if applicable |
— |
| Cronbach’s alpha |
0.84 |
| Sensitivity |
— |
| Spec |
— |
| Other information about tool (e.g., additional psychometrics [NPV, PPV, Youden’s index, diagnostic odds ratio]) |
Additional psychometrics evaluated include: inter-rater reliability (intraclass r = 0.89), and test-retest reliability (intraclass r = 0.82). |
| Links to development/adaptation/validation studies and/or previous studies using the tool |
Lee, B., Kaaya, S. F., Mbwambo, J. K., Smith-Fawzi, M. C., & Leshabari, M. T. (2008). Detecting Depressive Disorder With the Hopkins Symptom Checklist-25 in Tanzania. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 54(1), 7–20. https://doi.org/10.1177/0020764006074995 |
| Notes when administering the tool |
The DSQ should be administered verbally to participants by trained research assistants. |
