| First Name |
Dixon |
| Last Name |
Chibanda |
| Email |
Not Available |
| Affiliation |
Wake Forest University Health Sciences |
| 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) |
| 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 |
Zimbabwe |
| Language(s) of the adapted/developed/validated tool |
Shona |
| Clinical or community sample? |
Clinical |
| Subpopulation in which tool was developed/validated (e.g., tool was developed and tested among middle-class women)? |
Postpartum mothers aged 18 years and older, who attended the routine postnatal check-up at 6 weeks after delivery with an infant aged between 6–7 weeks and resided within the Chitungwiza catchment area |
| Development procedures |
culturally-adapted,validated |
| If validated, what was the gold standard? |
Validated against DSM-IV criteria for major depression diagnoses by trained clinicians. |
| Description of other development procedures, if applicable |
— |
| Cronbach’s alpha |
0.87 |
| Sensitivity |
0.88 |
| Spec |
0.87 |
| Other information about tool (e.g., additional psychometrics [NPV, PPV, Youden’s index, diagnostic odds ratio]) |
Additional psychometric properties assessed include: PPV: 0.74, NPV: 0.94, and AUC: 0.82. |
| Links to development/adaptation/validation studies and/or previous studies using the tool |
Chibanda, D., Mangezi, W., Tshimanga, M., Woelk, G., Rusakaniko, P., Stranix-Chibanda, L., Shetty, A. K. (2009). Validation of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale among women in a high HIV prevalence area in urban Zimbabwe. Archives of Womens Mental Health, 13(3), 201-206. doi:10.1007/s00737-009-0073-6 |
| Notes when administering the tool |
Interviews were administered verbally to participants, and all items were summed with equal weight to determine a total score. Based off of this study, a cut-off score of 11 was determined to be optimal for the Shona version of the EPDS. |
