The Shona Symptom Questionnaire
| Information about Measure | |
|---|---|
| First Name | Patel |
| Last Name | Vikram |
| Not Available | |
| Affiliation | Harvard Medical School, Institute of Global Health and Social Medicine |
| Other means of contacting author (e.g., website, Academia.edu, ResearchGate) | — |
| Mental health assessment tool that was adapted/developed/validated | The Shona Symptom Questionnaire |
| Mental health condition assessed | Common Mental Health Disorders |
| Idiom of distress included, if any | Not Applicable |
| Lifestage of interest | Adult (General) |
| Age range (age – age) | 16 – 65 |
| Country or countries where tool was developed/adapted/validated | Zimbabwe |
| Language(s) of the adapted/developed/validated tool | Shona |
| Clinical or community sample? | Other |
| Subpopulation in which tool was developed/validated (e.g., tool was developed and tested among middle-class women)? | The tool was validated in clinical samples drawn from primary health care clinics, traditional medical practitioners, and community residents. |
| Development procedures | locally-developed, validated |
| If validated, what was the gold standard? | The Revised Clinician Interview Schedule (Shona translation) and clinician rated ‘caseness’ |
| Description of other development procedures, if applicable | The SSQ items were developed from focus groups and interviews with community members, traditional medical practitioners, and expert panel review. |
| Cronbach’s alpha | 0.85 |
| Sensitivity | 0.82 |
| Spec | 0.7 |
| Other information about tool (e.g., additional psychometrics [NPV, PPV, Youden’s index, diagnostic odds ratio]) | The validation sample (n=302) was drawn from community residents, primary care clinics, and traditional medical providers. Specificity and sensitivity above are reported at a cutoff of 5/6. At this cutoff, PPV=.58 and NPV =.89. |
| Citations of development/adaptation/validation studies and/or previous studies using the tool | Patel, V., Simunyu, E., Gwanzura, F., Lewis, G., & Mann, A. (1997). The Shona Symptom Questionnaire: the development of an indigenous measure of common mental disorders in Harare. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 95(6), 469–475. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1997.tb10134.x |
| Notes when administering the tool | The scale is developed to be administered as self-report or read aloud by a literate lay-person. The SSQ is a 14 item questionnaire that asks if subjects have experienced a symptom in the last week (1= yes, 0= no). The total score is used. |