hwasn.blogg.se - Hopkins symptom checklist

For women the optimal cut-off points are higher than usual (2.25 for the HSCL-25 and 17 for the SRQ-20). The optimal cut-off points for this population are different from those often used in transcultural research.

All instruments were administered to a sample of 116 Pashto-speaking patients (53 men, 63 women) attending primary health care facilities in Eastern Afghanistan.Results: Both HSCL-25 and SRQ-20 had modest properties to correctly identify mental disorders, with an AUC (area under the curve) of 0.73 and 0.72 respectively. • Abstract: Background: Recent epidemiological studies in Afghanistan using mental health questionnaires yielded high prevalence rates for anxiety and depression.Objectives: To explore the validity in the Afghan cultural context of two mental health questionnaires, the Hopkins Symptom Checklist-25 (HSCL-25) and the Self-Reporting Questionnaire-20 (SRQ-20).Methods: The two mental health questionnaires were compared against a 'gold standard' semi-structured psychiatric interview, the Psychiatric Assessment Schedule (PAS).