Tension Scale
| Information about Measure | |
|---|---|
| First Name | Lesley Jo |
| Last Name | Weaver |
| [email protected] | |
| Affiliation | University of Oregon |
| Other means of contacting author (e.g., website, Academia.edu, ResearchGate) | lesleyjoweaver.com |
| Mental health assessment tool that was adapted/developed/validated | Tension scale |
| Mental health condition assessed | Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders |
| Idiom of distress included, if any | Tension |
| Lifestage of interest | Adult (General) |
| Age range (age – age) | — |
| Country or countries where tool was developed/adapted/validated | India |
| Language(s) of the adapted/developed/validated tool | Hindi |
| Clinical or community sample? | Clinical |
| Subpopulation in which tool was developed/validated (e.g., tool was developed and tested among middle-class women)? | Women with and without type 2 diabetes |
| Development procedures | Locally developed and validated |
| If validated, what was the gold standard? | The Hopkins Symptoms Checklist-25, translated and adapted for use in Hindi |
| Description of other development procedures, if applicable | — |
| Cronbach’s alpha | >0.8 |
| Sensitivity | — |
| Spec | — |
| Other information about tool (e.g., additional psychometrics [NPV, PPV, Youden’s index, diagnostic odds ratio]) | The tool’s main prompt (“Since getting diabetes, do you feel any of the following mood-related items much more, somewhat more, or the same as before?”) could be changed to something generic such as, “In the past [time period], have you felt any of the following mood-related items much more, somewhat more, or the same as usual?” |
| Links to development/adaptation/validation studies and/or previous studies using the tool | Weaver, L.J. Cult Med Psychiatry (2017) 41: 35. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11013-016-9516-5 Weaver, L. J., & Kaiser, B. N. (2015). Developing and Testing Locally Derived Mental Health Scales: Examples from North India and Haiti. Field Methods, 27(2), 115–130. https://doi.org/10.1177/1525822X14547191 |
| Notes when administering the tool | Tool can be administered by anyone who can read and write Hindi; deliver the tool verbally and record scores; sum scores with all items equally weighted. Responses are scored as much more=2, somewhat more=1, no change=0. Standard cutoffs for clinically significant symptomatology have not been developed. “Tension” scores are used as a continuous variable in analyses. |