Table 1 A-priori criteria for determining the choice of depression screening instruments for adaptation in Aboriginal communities in Central Australia
From: Depression in Aboriginal men in central Australia: adaptation of the Patient Health Questionnaire 9
1 | Likely face validity within the target population |
2 | Minimal or no culturally inappropriate questions |
3 | The existence of response categories that were linguistically and conceptually adaptable across languages |
4 | Brevity |
5 | Could be self-completed, as well as facilitated by an interviewer with little or no training |
6 | Had been used in cross-cultural studies previously |
7 | Possessed robust psychometric properties |
8 | Had been used in both psychiatric and community samples |
9 | Had been used in patients with medical co-morbidity |
10 | That there was concurrence/coherence with the primary findings from the qualitative fieldwork. |