Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS)- Ethiopia
| Information about Measure | |
|---|---|
| First Name | Charlotte |
| Last Name | Hanlon |
| [email protected] | |
| 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. |