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Table 3 Initial and consensus translations of PHQ-9 Question 6 – Self-Reproach

From: Depression in Aboriginal men in central Australia: adaptation of the Patient Health Questionnaire 9

“Over the last 2 weeks, how often have you been bothered by feeling bad about yourself- or that you are a failure or you have let yourself or your family down?”

Language

Back translation 1

Back translation 2

Within language consensus

Arrernte

I can’t do it, I have feelings that are no-good

How are your feelings? Are you thinking hard about your feelings?

Have you been feeling useless, no good, that you can’t do anything?

Pitjantjatjara

Do you think that you are a bad person and you have ruined everything for you and your family?

Do you think that you are a no good person?

Have you been feeling you were a bad person and you ruin everything for you and your family?

Anmatyerre

I feel sick physically or with emotional sadness, loneliness and depression.

Are you feeling sad because you are a bad person?

Have you been feeling bad about yourself, sad and depressed, that you are no good?

Warlpiri

I feel bad about myself and about my family because I let them down.

I feel really tired and bad. I want to walk away from people and family.

Do you feel bad about yourself and about your family because you let them down?

Luritja

Has your spirit been feeling no good?

How is your thinking? Are you thinking bad things?

Has your spirit been feeling no-good?

Final adaptation

“Have you been feeling bad about yourself, that you are useless, no good, that you have let your family down?”