| First Name |
T.N. |
| Last Name |
Rajapske |
| Email |
Not Available |
| Affiliation |
Department of Psychiatry, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka |
| Other means of contacting author (e.g., website, Academia.edu, ResearchGate) |
— |
| Mental health assessment tool that was adapted/developed/validated |
Peradeniya Depression Scale (PDS) |
| Mental health condition assessed |
Depressive Disorders |
| Idiom of distress included, if any |
“Saankaawa” (implies sadness and grief), “Bade gindara” (“fire in the abdomen), “Waatha amaaru” (generalized discomfort) |
| Lifestage of interest |
Adult (General) |
| Age range (age – age) |
18+ |
| Country or countries where tool was developed/adapted/validated |
Sri Lanka |
| Language(s) of the adapted/developed/validated tool |
Sinhalese |
| Clinical or community sample? |
Clinical |
| Subpopulation in which tool was developed/validated (e.g., tool was developed and tested among middle-class women)? |
Community members who were presenting to a psychiatry clinic for the first time and were suffering from current Major Depressive Episode. |
| Development procedures |
locally-developed,validated |
| If validated, what was the gold standard? |
Clinical diagnosis using the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM Disorders (SCID) |
| Description of other development procedures, if applicable |
— |
| Cronbach’s alpha |
— |
| Sensitivity |
0.87 |
| Spec |
0.88 |
| Other information about tool (e.g., additional psychometrics [NPV, PPV, Youden’s index, diagnostic odds ratio]) |
Area under the ROC curve was 0.95 (95% CI 0.91-0.99). |
| Citations of development/adaptation/validation studies and/or previous studies using the tool |
Abeyasinghe, D., Tennakoon, S., & Rajapakse, T. (2012). The development and validation of the Peradeniya Depression Scale (PDS)—A culturally relevant tool for screening of depression in Sri Lanka. Journal of Affective Disorders, 142(1-3), 143–149. |
| Notes when administering the tool |
The tool is intended to be used for depression screening by psychiatrists but could be used by anyone who is fluent in Sinhalese. All 25 items are summed with equal weight. A cut-off score of 10/25 is advised based on this initial validation. |
