| First Name |
Ahmed |
| Last Name |
Ibrahim |
| Email |
Not Available |
| Affiliation |
Community Health School, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University |
| Other means of contacting author (e.g., website, Academia.edu, ResearchGate) |
— |
| Mental health assessment tool that was adapted/developed/validated |
Zagazig Depression Scale |
| Mental health condition assessed |
Depressive Disorders |
| Idiom of distress included, if any |
Not Applicable |
| Lifestage of interest |
Adult (General) |
| Age range (age – age) |
16-26 |
| Country or countries where tool was developed/adapted/validated |
Egypt |
| Language(s) of the adapted/developed/validated tool |
Arabic |
| Clinical or community sample? |
Community |
| Subpopulation in which tool was developed/validated (e.g., tool was developed and tested among middle-class women)? |
University students |
| Development procedures |
validated |
| If validated, what was the gold standard? |
Validated using the PHQ (Patient Health Questionnaire) as a screening tool for depression |
| Description of other development procedures, if applicable |
— |
| Cronbach’s alpha |
0.904 |
| 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 |
Ibrahim, A. K., Kelly, S. J., & Glazebrook, C. (2012). Reliability of a shortened version of the Zagazig Depression Scale and prevalence of depression in an Egyptian university student sample. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 53(5), 638-647. doi:10.1016/j.comppsych.2011.06.007 |
| Notes when administering the tool |
For this validation study, students filled out the Zagazig Depression Scale independently and returned to researchers. Items were summed with equal weight to yield a total score. |
