Hikikomori Questionnaire

Information about Measure
First Name Alan
Last Name Teo
Email Not Available
Affiliation VA Portland Health Care System
Other means of contacting author (e.g., website, Academia.edu, ResearchGate) —
Mental health assessment tool that was adapted/developed/validated Hikikomori Questionnaire
Mental health condition assessed Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders
Idiom of distress included, if any Not Applicable
Lifestage of interest Adult (General)
Age range (age – age) 15-50
Country or countries where tool was developed/adapted/validated United States, Japan
Language(s) of the adapted/developed/validated tool English, Japanese
Clinical or community sample? Other
Subpopulation in which tool was developed/validated (e.g., tool was developed and tested among middle-class women)? —
Development procedures culturally-adapted,locally-developed
If validated, what was the gold standard? —
Description of other development procedures, if applicable —
Cronbach’s alpha 0.96
Sensitivity 0.94
Spec 0.61
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 Teo AR, Chen JI, Kubo H, et al. Development and validation of the 25-item Hikikomori Questionnaire (HQ-25) [published correction appears in Psychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2019 Sep;73(9):603]. Psychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2018;72(10):780-788. doi:10.1111/pcn.12691
Notes when administering the tool NA