Pediatric Symptom Checklist (PSC) – Botswana
Information about Measure | |
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First Name | Elizabeth |
Last Name | Lowenthal |
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Affiliation | University of Pennsylvania |
Other means of contacting author (e.g., website, Academia.edu, ResearchGate) | — |
Mental health assessment tool that was adapted/developed/validated | Pediatric Symptom Checklist (PSC) |
Mental health condition assessed | General Mental Health/Wellbeing/Quality of Life |
Idiom of distress included, if any | Not Applicable |
Lifestage of interest | Childhood or Adolescence |
Country or countries where tool was developed/adapted/validated | Botswana |
Language(s) of the adapted/developed/validated tool | Setswana |
Clinical or community sample? | Clinical |
Subpopulation in which tool was developed/validated (e.g., tool was developed and tested among middle-class women)? | HIV-infected children aged 8 to 16 years old attending infectious disease clinics |
Development procedures | Culturally adapted |
If validated, what was the gold standard? | — |
Description of other development procedures, if applicable | — |
Cronbach’s alpha | 0.87 |
Sensitivity | 0.62 |
Spec | 0.86 |
Other information about tool (e.g., additional psychometrics [NPV, PPV, Youden’s index, diagnostic odds ratio]) | The area under the curve (AUC) for the full 35-item scale was 0.85. Based off of this study, a cut-off score of 20 is recommended. The psychometric properties were assessed for the full 35-item PSC, as well as a shortened 17-item version. More information about the shortened 17-item version of the scale is detailed in the original publication. |
Links to development/adaptation/validation studies and/or previous studies using the tool | Lowenthal, E., Lawler, K., Harari, N., Moamogwe, L., Masunge, J., Masedi, M., Gross, R. (2011). Validation of the Pediatric Symptom Checklist in HIV-infected Batswana. Journal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health, 23(1), 17-28. doi:10.2989/17280583.2011.594245 |
Notes when administering the tool | The PSC should be verbally delivered to caregivers by trained research assistants. The youth version of the PSC (PSC-Y) can be completed by children if deemed appropriate, and should also be verbally administered by trained research assistants who can aid in the completion of the scale. |