Hopkins Symptom Checklist(HSCL-37A) – Congo
Information about Measure | |
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First Name | Cindy |
Last Name | Mels |
Not Available | |
Affiliation | Department of Orthopedagogics, Ghent University |
Other means of contacting author (e.g., website, Academia.edu, ResearchGate) | — |
Mental health assessment tool that was adapted/developed/validated | Hopkins Symptom Checklist-37A (HSCL-37A) – Congo |
Mental health condition assessed | Common Mental Health Disorders |
Idiom of distress included, if any | Not Applicable |
Lifestage of interest | Childhood or Adolescence and Young Adults |
Age range (age – age) | 13-21 |
Country or countries where tool was developed/adapted/validated | Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo |
Language(s) of the adapted/developed/validated tool | Congolese French and Swahili |
Clinical or community sample? | Community |
Subpopulation in which tool was developed/validated (e.g., tool was developed and tested among middle-class women)? | 13 secondary schools in the Ituri district |
Development procedures | Culturally adapted |
If validated, what was the gold standard? | — |
Description of other development procedures, if applicable | — |
Cronbach’s alpha | 0.91 |
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 | Mels, C., Derluyn, I., Broekaert, E., & Rosseel, Y. (2009). Community-based cross-cultural adaptation of mental health measures in emergency settings: Validating the IES-R and HSCL-37A in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 45(9), 899-910. doi:10.1007/s00127-009-0128-z |
Notes when administering the tool | The instrument may be self-administered or verbally administered by a trained research assistant, depending upon the age and other characteristics of the study population. In the original development of this tool, a more rigorous translation procedure was adopted for the Congolese French version than for the Swahili version, though most students in the publication sample completed the Swahili HSCL-37A. The HSCL-37A items range on a likert scale and all items should be summed with equal weight to calculate a participant’s total score. |