Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS)- Zimbabwe
| Information about Measure | |
|---|---|
| First Name | Dixon |
| Last Name | Chibanda |
| 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. |