Thai Depression Inventory
| Information about Measure | |
|---|---|
| First Name | Manote |
| Last Name | Lotrakul |
| Not Available | |
| Affiliation | Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand. |
| Other means of contacting author (e.g., website, Academia.edu, ResearchGate) | — |
| Mental health assessment tool that was adapted/developed/validated | The Thai Depression Inventory |
| Mental health condition assessed | Depressive Disorders |
| Idiom of distress included, if any | Not Applicable |
| Lifestage of interest | Adult (General) |
| Age range (age – age) | — |
| Country or countries where tool was developed/adapted/validated | Thailand |
| Language(s) of the adapted/developed/validated tool | Thai |
| Clinical or community sample? | Clinical |
| Subpopulation in which tool was developed/validated (e.g., tool was developed and tested among middle-class women)? | 50 adults in an urban inpatient and outpatient psychiatric clinic |
| Development procedures | locally-developed,culturally-adapted,validated |
| If validated, what was the gold standard? | Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression Thai Version |
| Description of other development procedures, if applicable | — |
| Cronbach’s alpha | 0.858 |
| Sensitivity | — |
| Spec | — |
| Other information about tool (e.g., additional psychometrics [NPV, PPV, Youden’s index, diagnostic odds ratio]) | A 20 item scale was developed by local Thai clinicians after a literature review. It was translated and adapted by the expert team and then piloted in an initial set of 20 depressed Thai psychiatric patients. Their feedback was integrated to produce the final 20 item scale.
Factor analysis suggested a five-factor structure explaining the majority of the variance. The Pearson correlation with the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression was 0.7188 (p<0.0001), Comparison with the HRSD suggested a Thai Depression Inventory cutoff score of 34 as suggestive of major depression. |
| Citations of development/adaptation/validation studies and/or previous studies using the tool | Lotrakul, M., & Sukanich, P. (1999). Development of the Thai depression inventory. JOURNAL-MEDICAL ASSOCIATION OF THAILAND, 82(12), 1200-1207. |
| Notes when administering the tool | The scale is administered by a clinician in Thai. The tool consists of 20 items rated on a three point likert scale, with all item weighted equally. Scores range form 0 – 60 and the total score is used. |