Psychiatric rating scales in Urdu: a systematic review

BMC Psychiatry

Table 1 Cross-cultural validation status of all the psychiatric rating scales in Urdu that have been translated from English language. (BSI was developed simultaneously in Urdu and English)

Scale	Study	Back-translation done	Translation committee	Pre-testing done	Validation Population	Linguistic Equivalence evaluated	Conceptual Equivalence evaluated	Scale Equivalence evaluated
CIS-R	[29]	YES	YES	Probe technique	Three women	No	No	No
EAT	[30]	YES	YES	YES, bilingual method	College students	Yes	Yes	Yes
EPDS	[14]	NR	NR	NO	N/A	No	No	No
GHQ 12	[31]	NO	YES	NO	N/A	No	No	No
GHQ-28	[12]	NO	YES	Yes, Bilingual method	Medical & nursing students	Yes	Yes	Yes
HADS	[32, 33]	YES	YES	YES, bilingual method	Medical students	Yes	Yes	Yes
How I Feel	[18]	YES	YES	YES, probe technique	Pregnant women	No	No	No
HSCL	[34]	YES	YES	NO	N/A	No	No	No
HTQ	[14]	YES	YES	NO	N/A	No	No	No
ITG	[35]	YES	NR	NO	N/A	No	No	No
PHQ	[36, 38]	NR	NR	NR	N/A	No	No	No
SDQ	[39]	YES	YES	NO	N/A	No	No	No
SRQ	[25, 36, 38, 40, 41]	YES	YES	YES, probe technique	8 mothers from the study area	No	No	No
WHO-QOL BREF	[42]	YES	YES	Bilingual method	Healthy bilingual subjects	Yes	Yes	Yes

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