Zagazig Depression Scale
| Information about Measure | |
|---|---|
| First Name | Ahmed |
| Last Name | Ibrahim |
| 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. |