| First Name |
Cindy |
| Last Name |
Mels |
| Email |
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. |
