Liberian Distress Screener
| Information about Measure | |
|---|---|
| First Name | Katrin |
| Last Name | Fabian |
| Not Available | |
| Affiliation | Department of Global Health, University of Washington |
| Other means of contacting author (e.g., website, Academia.edu, ResearchGate) | — |
| Mental health assessment tool that was adapted/developed/validated | Liberian Distress Screener |
| Mental health condition assessed | Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders |
| Idiom of distress included, if any | Scale includes 11 unique Liberian idioms of distress |
| Lifestage of interest | Adult (General) |
| Age range (age – age) | 19-81 |
| Country or countries where tool was developed/adapted/validated | Liberia |
| Language(s) of the adapted/developed/validated tool | Liberian English |
| 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 | — |
| 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 | Fabian, K., Fannoh, J., Washington, G. G., Geninyan, W. B., Nyachienga, B., Cyrus, G., & Hallowanger, J. (2018). ‘‘My Heart Die in Me’’: Idioms of Distress and the Development of a Screening Tool for Mental Suffering in Southeast Liberia. Cultural Medical Psychiatry, (42), 684-703. |
| Notes when administering the tool | The tool may be filled out by participants or administered verbally. Total scores are generated by summing each item with equal weight. More extensive work evaluating the screener is anticipated by its authors. |