Hopkins Symptom Checklist- Depression Scale and Agahinda Gakabije
| Information about Measure | |
|---|---|
| First Name | Paul |
| Last Name | Bolton |
| [email protected] | |
| Affiliation | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health |
| Other means of contacting author (e.g., website, Academia.edu, ResearchGate) | — |
| Mental health assessment tool that was adapted/developed/validated | Hopkins Symptom Checklist- Depression Scale and Agahinda Gakabije |
| Mental health condition assessed | Depressive Disorders |
| Idiom of distress included, if any | Agahinda gakabije (local idiom of distress that approximates Western category of depression) |
| Lifestage of interest | Adult (General) |
| Age range (age – age) | — |
| Country or countries where tool was developed/adapted/validated | Rwanda |
| Language(s) of the adapted/developed/validated tool | Kinyarwanda |
| Clinical or community sample? | Community |
| Subpopulation in which tool was developed/validated (e.g., tool was developed and tested among middle-class women)? | Simple random sample of 400 houses in Kanzenze commune |
| Development procedures | Locally developed and culturally validated |
| If validated, what was the gold standard? | — |
| Description of other development procedures, if applicable | — |
| Cronbach’s alpha | 0.87 |
| Sensitivity | — |
| Spec | — |
| Other information about tool (e.g., additional psychometrics [NPV, PPV, Youden’s index, diagnostic odds ratio]) | Test-retest reliability of a DHSCL-based scale was 0.67. The sensitivity of agahinda gakabije for depression was 94.7% and specificity was 38.2%. |
| Links to development/adaptation/validation studies and/or previous studies using the tool | Bolton, P. A. (2001). Cross-cultural validity and reliability testing of a standard psychiatric assessment instrument without a gold standard. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 189(4), 238-242. https://doi.org/10.1097/00005053-200104000-00005 |
| Notes when administering the tool | This scale should be administered verbally to participants by trained researchers, in order to assess the cultural idiom of distress, participants were simply asked if they had agahinda gakabije. The adapted HSCL should be summed with all items treated at equal weight.
Anyone interested in using this tool should inform Paul Bolton about their intent to use it. Any reports or publications arising from use of the tool should acknowledge the Global Mental Health group at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |