Lao Depression Inventory
| Autor: | Charles J. Golden, Mary-Beth Davidson-Muskin |
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| Rok vydání: | 1989 |
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Clinical interview Depressive Disorder Refugees medicine.medical_specialty Validation group Personality Inventory Psychometrics Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Ethnic group Nebraska Clinical Psychology Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Laos Scale (social sciences) medicine Humans Female Personality Assessment Inventory Psychiatry Psychology Depression (differential diagnoses) Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Personality Assessment. 53:161-168 |
| ISSN: | 1532-7752 0022-3891 |
| DOI: | 10.1207/s15327752jpa5301_16 |
| Popis: | There are no measurement tools that accurately measure depression among Lao refugees. The overall purpose of this research was to complete the development and validation procedures for the Lao Depression Inventory (LDI). The study consisted of 216 Ethnic Lao refugees. A clinical interview and 164 true/false questions were administered to identify specific items which could identify depression among the Ethnic Lao people. All items were administered in both English and Lao. Overall, 78 of the 164 items differentiated groups of depressed and nondepressed Lao at the .01 level. Results of validation procedures showed that a 30-item scale had an accuracy rate of 89% in identifying the presence of depression in the validation group; the hit-rate for the same items and cutoff was 92% in the cross-validation group. Potential uses of the scale are discussed. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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