Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) – Kenya
| Information about Measure | |
|---|---|
| First Name | Enbal |
| Last Name | Shacham |
| Not Available | |
| Affiliation | Department of Psychiatry, Washington University |
| Other means of contacting author (e.g., website, Academia.edu, ResearchGate) | — |
| Mental health assessment tool that was adapted/developed/validated | Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) – Kenya |
| Mental health condition assessed | Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders |
| Idiom of distress included, if any | Not Applicable |
| Lifestage of interest | Adult (General) |
| Age range (age – age) | — |
| Country or countries where tool was developed/adapted/validated | Kenya |
| Language(s) of the adapted/developed/validated tool | Swahili |
| Clinical or community sample? | Other |
| Subpopulation in which tool was developed/validated (e.g., tool was developed and tested among middle-class women)? | Individuals Participating in a Support Group for HIV/AIDS Patients |
| Development procedures | Culturally adapted and validated |
| If validated, what was the gold standard? | Convergent Validity from Community Focus Groups |
| Description of other development procedures, if applicable | — |
| Cronbach’s alpha | 0.95 |
| Sensitivity | — |
| Spec | — |
| Other information about tool (e.g., additional psychometrics [NPV, PPV, Youden’s index, diagnostic odds ratio]) | Cronbach’s alpha was assessed for the various subscales examined in the original study (cited in the Links tab). The global severity index (GSI) exhibited the best internal reliability at 0.95, and is therefore encouraged for use. The Intraclass coefficient (ICC) for the GSI was 0.70. |
| Links to development/adaptation/validation studies and/or previous studies using the tool | Enbal Shacham, Michael Reece, Patrick O. Monahan, Violet Yebei, Otieno Omollo, Willis Owino Ong’or & Claris Ojwang (2008) Measuring psychological distress symptoms in individuals living with HIV in western Kenya, Journal of Mental Health, 17:4, 424-434, DOI:10.1080/09638230701530192 |
| Notes when administering the tool | The tool should be administered verbally in Swahili by a trained research assistant. Each item is scored from 0 to 4 and the sum score is calculated by summing each item with equal weight. |