Arab Youth Mental Health Scale
| Information about Measure | |
|---|---|
| First Name | Rema |
| Last Name | Afifi |
| Not Available | |
| Affiliation | Department of Health Behavior and Education, American University of Beirut |
| Other means of contacting author (e.g., website, Academia.edu, ResearchGate) | — |
| Mental health assessment tool that was adapted/developed/validated | Arab Youth Mental Health Scale |
| Mental health condition assessed | Common Mental Health Disorders |
| Idiom of distress included, if any | Not Applicable |
| Lifestage of interest | Childhood or Adolescence |
| Age range (age – age) | 10-14 |
| Country or countries where tool was developed/adapted/validated | Lebanon |
| 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)? | — |
| Development procedures | Locally developed |
| If validated, what was the gold standard? | — |
| Description of other development procedures, if applicable | Several items used in the construction of the Arab Youth Mental Health Scale were pulled from existing surveys, specifically the Center for Epidemiological Studies- Depression Scale, the Hopkins Symptom Checklist, and the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. Items from each scale were piloted in the study population to assess participant comprehension and contextual and cultural relevance. |
| Cronbach’s alpha | 0.901 |
| Sensitivity | — |
| Spec | — |
| Other information about tool (e.g., additional psychometrics [NPV, PPV, Youden’s index, diagnostic odds ratio]) | — |
| Citations of development/adaptation/validation studies and/or previous studies using the tool | Makhoul, J., Nakkash, R. T., Hajj, T. E., Abdulrahim, S., Kanj, M., Mahfoud, Z., & Afifi, R. A. (2010). Development and Validation of the Arab Youth Mental Health Scale. Community Mental Health Journal, 47(3), 331-340. doi:10.1007/s10597-010-9312-6 |
| Notes when administering the tool | The tool should be administered verbally by trained research assistants who are fluent in Arabic. |