| First Name |
Suwanna |
| Last Name |
Arunpongpaisal |
| Email |
Not Available |
| Affiliation |
Department of Psychiatry, Khon Kaen University, Thailand |
| Other means of contacting author (e.g., website, Academia.edu, ResearchGate) |
— |
| Mental health assessment tool that was adapted/developed/validated |
Two-Question Screening Test for Depression |
| Mental health condition assessed |
Depressive Disorders |
| Idiom of distress included, if any |
10 in total, compounded into two groups. For instance, Mee-tae-yak-hai (easy crying), Mai-yak-wow (unwanted to talk), Ngoi (low-spirited) |
| Lifestage of interest |
Adult (General) |
| Age range (age – age) |
~18 – ~62 |
| Country or countries where tool was developed/adapted/validated |
Thailand |
| Language(s) of the adapted/developed/validated tool |
Thai |
| Clinical or community sample? |
Community |
| Subpopulation in which tool was developed/validated (e.g., tool was developed and tested among middle-class women)? |
17 villages in the Northeastern Thai community |
| Development procedures |
locally-developed,validated |
| If validated, what was the gold standard? |
MINI (mini-international-neuropsychiatric interview) structured psychiatric examination using DSM-IV-TR criteria |
| Description of other development procedures, if applicable |
The screener was developed through discussion with the local population to select dialectic words to express depressive mood. This screener was then validated through a cross-sectional criterion study. |
| Cronbach’s alpha |
— |
| Sensitivity |
0.719 |
| Spec |
0.851 |
| Other information about tool (e.g., additional psychometrics [NPV, PPV, Youden’s index, diagnostic odds ratio]) |
The two-item screener contains a component that assesses depression and a component that assesses pleasure. The above sensitivities and specificities are reported based on individuals who provided positive answers to both of the questions. These metrics are for the diagnosis of depressive disorder. The sensitivity and specificity for the diagnosis of major depression are 0.73 and 0.839, respectively. For a more detailed description of subscale psychometrics, please see the reference article. |
| Citations of development/adaptation/validation studies and/or previous studies using the tool |
Arunpongpaisal S, Kongsuk T, Maneethorn N, Maneethorn B, Wannasawek K, Leejongpermpoon J, et al. Development and validity of two-question screening test for depressive disorders in Northeastern Thai community. Asian Journal of Psychiatry. 2009;2(4):149-52. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajp.2009.10.002. PubMed PMID: 2009612897. |
| Notes when administering the tool |
For the original study, the two-question screener was administered verbally by nurses in a community setting. The screener may be administered by anyone who speaks Thai. The screener contains questions that are answered dichotomously (with yes/no responses). |
