African Youth Psychosocial Assessment (AYPA)
| Information about Measure | |
|---|---|
| First Name | Theresa |
| Last Name | Betancourt |
| theresa.betancourt@bc.edu | |
| Affiliation | Boston College School of Social Work |
| Other means of contacting author (e.g., website, Academia.edu, ResearchGate) | — |
| Mental health assessment tool that was adapted/developed/validated | African Youth Psychosocial Assessment (AYPA) |
| Mental health condition assessed | Emotional and Behavioral Problems |
| Idiom of distress included, if any | Not Applicable |
| Lifestage of interest | Childhood or Adolescence |
| Age range (age – age) | — |
| Country or countries where tool was developed/adapted/validated | Uganda |
| Language(s) of the adapted/developed/validated tool | Acholi Luo |
| Clinical or community sample? | Community |
| Subpopulation in which tool was developed/validated (e.g., tool was developed and tested among middle-class women)? | Tool was developed and tested among adolescents that resided in a camp for internally displaced persons for at least 1 month |
| Development procedures | Locally developed |
| If validated, what was the gold standard? | Using a comparison of parent and self-reported ratings on presence of local syndrome terms |
| Description of other development procedures, if applicable | — |
| Cronbach’s alpha | — |
| Sensitivity | — |
| Spec | — |
| Other information about tool (e.g., additional psychometrics [NPV, PPV, Youden’s index, diagnostic odds ratio]) | All sub-scales had satisfactory to excellent alpha values, listed as follows:prosocial/adaptive (α= 0.72), somatic complaints without medical cause (α= 0.74), externalizing problems (α=0.83),and internalizing problems (α= 0.88). For the actual scale, see Appendix B- Table 1. https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.libproxy.lib.unc.edu/doi/epdf/10.1002/mpr.1420 |
| Links to development/adaptation/validation studies and/or previous studies using the tool | Betancourt, T. S., Yang, F., Bolton, P., Normand, S. (2014). Developing an African youth psychosocial assessment: An application of item response theory. International Journal of Methods Psychiatric Research, 23, 142–160. doi:10.1002/mpr.1420 |
| Notes when administering the tool | The assessment was designed to be administered verbally due to low literacy among respondents. A visual aid may be used to clarify response options for participants. |