Dar-es-Salaam Symptom Questionnaire (DSQ)
| Information about Measure | |
|---|---|
| First Name | Sylvia |
| Last Name | Kaaya |
| — | |
| 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. |