Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10) – Burkina Faso
| Information about Measure | |
|---|---|
| First Name | Rebecca |
| Last Name | Baggaley |
| Not Available | |
| Affiliation | Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine |
| Other means of contacting author (e.g., website, Academia.edu, ResearchGate) | — |
| Mental health assessment tool that was adapted/developed/validated | Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10) – Burkina Faso |
| Mental health condition assessed | Depressive Disorders |
| Idiom of distress included, if any | Not Applicable |
| Lifestage of interest | Adult (General) |
| Age range (age – age) | 17-46 |
| Country or countries where tool was developed/adapted/validated | Burkina Faso |
| Language(s) of the adapted/developed/validated tool | West African French, Moore, and Dioula |
| Clinical or community sample? | Other |
| Subpopulation in which tool was developed/validated (e.g., tool was developed and tested among middle-class women)? | Postpartum women and women with early pregnancy loss enrolled in a separate cohort study |
| Development procedures | validated |
| If validated, what was the gold standard? | Clinical diagnosis based on the ICD-10 criteria, assessed during psychiatric interviews |
| Description of other development procedures, if applicable | |
| Cronbach’s alpha | 0.87 |
| Sensitivity | 0.59 |
| Spec | 0.91 |
| 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 | Baggaley, R. F., Ganaba, R., Filippi, V., Kere, M., Marshall, T., Sombié, I.,Patel, V. (2007). Short communication: Detecting depression after pregnancy: the validity of the K10 and K6 in Burkina Faso. Tropical Medicine & International Health, 12(10), 1225–1229. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2007.01906.x |
| Notes when administering the tool | The tool may be administered by anyone who can read/write in the appropriate language (this tool has three versions: West African French, Moore, and Dioula) in order to reach the majority population of Burkina Faso and local language groups. Scores are calculated by summing all items with equal weight. Based on the listed psychometrics, the suggested cut-off is a score of greater than or equal to 14. |