| First Name |
Elizabeth |
| Last Name |
Lowenthal |
| Email |
— |
| 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 |
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| 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. |
