Child and Adolescent Symptom Inventory-5 (CASI-5) – Uganda
| Information about Measure | |
|---|---|
| First Name | Richard Stephen |
| Last Name | Mpango |
| Not Available | |
| Affiliation | Research Scientist, Mental Health Project, MRC/UVRI Uganda Research Unit on AIDS |
| Other means of contacting author (e.g., website, Academia.edu, ResearchGate) | — |
| Mental health assessment tool that was adapted/developed/validated | Child and Adolescent Symptom Inventory-5 (CASI-5) – Uganda |
| Mental health condition assessed | Emotional and Behavioral Problems |
| Idiom of distress included, if any | Several idioms of distress are captured in the adapted version of the scale |
| Lifestage of interest | Childhood or Adolescence |
| Age range (age – age) | 5-17 |
| Country or countries where tool was developed/adapted/validated | Uganda |
| Language(s) of the adapted/developed/validated tool | Luganda |
| Clinical or community sample? | Clinical |
| Subpopulation in which tool was developed/validated (e.g., tool was developed and tested among middle-class women)? | Caregivers of children attending a Child and Adolescent HIV Clinic at Butabika Hospital |
| Development procedures | Culturally adapted |
| If validated, what was the gold standard? | — |
| Description of other development procedures, if applicable | — |
| Cronbach’s alpha | — |
| 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 | Mpango, R. S., Kinyanda, E., Rukundo, G. Z., Gadow, K. D., & Patel, V. (2017). Cross-cultural adaptation of the Child and Adolescent Symptom Inventory-5 (CASI-5) for use in central and south-western Uganda: The CHAKA project. Tropical Doctor, 47(4), 347-354. doi:10.1177/0049475517724688 |
| Notes when administering the tool | The tool should be administered by trained research assistants who are fluent in Luganda. Trained research assistants should administer the tool to the primary caretaker of the children participating in the study. |