| First Name |
Patel |
| Last Name |
Vikram |
| Email |
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. |
