Table 1 Screening tool for asylum-seeker and refugee mental health (STAR-MH) items

1.^a

Have you ever seen a doctor or health worker, gone to hospital, or taken medicines for your ‘nerves’? (i.e. mental or emotional health)

2.^a

Have you often wished you were dead, wanted to kill yourself or ever attempted suicide or harmed yourself?

3.^b

Have you felt very restless, like you can’t keep still?

HSCL-10 (anxiety item)

4.

Have you lost interest in things? (i.e. things you usually enjoy)

HSCL-23 (depression item)

5.

Have you worried about going crazy or ‘losing your mind’?

PERI-D-11 (also HTQ-24 ^d; trauma item)

6.^c

Have you had a lot of trouble sleeping?

HSCL-16 & HTQ-8 (depression and trauma item)

7.

Have you felt very fearful? (i.e. scared or afraid)

HSCL-2 (anxiety item)

8.

Have you felt very trapped or caught? (e.g. like you are trapped in a situation you cannot get out of)

HSCL-21 (depression item)

9.

Have you had a lot of pain in your body?

HTQ-20 (refugee-specific trauma item)

10.

Have you felt very worthless? (i.e. like you have no worth or value)

HSCL-25 (depression item)