Luo Perceived Stress Scale
| Information about Measure | |
|---|---|
| First Name | Gillian |
| Last Name | Ice |
| — | |
| Affiliation | Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine |
| Other means of contacting author (e.g., website, Academia.edu, ResearchGate) | — |
| Mental health assessment tool that was adapted/developed/validated | Luo Perceived Stress Scale |
| Mental health condition assessed | Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders |
| Idiom of distress included, if any | kimi, yiengni, tetni, jachir, bebni |
| Lifestage of interest | Elderly |
| Age range (age – age) | — |
| Country or countries where tool was developed/adapted/validated | Kenya |
| Language(s) of the adapted/developed/validated tool | Dholuo |
| Clinical or community sample? | Community |
| Subpopulation in which tool was developed/validated (e.g., tool was developed and tested among middle-class women)? | — |
| Development procedures | locally-developed |
| If validated, what was the gold standard? | Criterion validity was examined through the associations between LPSS score and caregiving, social networks, depression, and cortisol |
| Description of other development procedures, if applicable | — |
| Cronbach’s alpha | 0.75 |
| Sensitivity | — |
| Spec | — |
| Other information about tool (e.g., additional psychometrics [NPV, PPV, Youden’s index, diagnostic odds ratio]) | — |
| Links to development/adaptation/validation studies and/or previous studies using the tool | Ice, G. H., & Yogo, J. (2005). Measuring Stress Among Luo Elders: Development of the Luo Perceived Stress Scale. Field Methods, 17(4), 394-411. doi:10.1177/1525822×05280176 |
| Notes when administering the tool | The LPSS should be administered verbally by trained research assistants. Items are coded dichotonomously, positive items are reverse coded, and the LPSS total score is calculated by summing all items with equal weight. |