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| Title |
Cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric properties of the Kessler Scale of Psychological Distress to a traumatic brain injury population in Swahili and the Tanzanian Setting
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| Published in |
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, July 2018
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12955-018-0973-0 |
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| Authors |
Joao Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci, Silvia Daniela Vaca, Deena El-Gabri, Leonardo Pestillo de Oliveira, Mark Mvungi, Blandina Theophil Mmbaga, Michael Haglund, Catherine Staton |
| Abstract |
To evaluate the psychometric properties of a Swahili version of the Kessler Psychological Distress scale in an injury population in Tanzania. Swahili version of the Kessler Psychological Distress scale was developed by translation and back-translation by a panel of native speakers of both English and Swahili. The translated instruments were administered to a sample of Tanzanian adults from a traumatic brain injury registry. The content validity, construct validity, reliability, internal structure, and external reliability were analyzed using standard statistical methods. Both translated versions of the Kessler Psychological Distress scale were found to be reliable (>0.85) for all tested versions. Confirmatory factor analysis of one and two factor solution showed adequate results. Kessler Psychological Distress scale scores were strongly correlated to depression and quality of life (R>0.50). This paper presents the first Swahili adaptations of the Kessler Psychological Distress scale as well as the first validation of these questionnaires in Tanzania. The instrument was found to have acceptable psychometric properties, resulting in a new useful tool for medical and social research in this setting. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| United States | 3 | 43% |
| Unknown | 4 | 57% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 5 | 71% |
| Scientists | 1 | 14% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 14% |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
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| Unknown | 74 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Master | 10 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 9 | 12% |
| Researcher | 8 | 11% |
| Other | 4 | 5% |
| Lecturer | 4 | 5% |
| Other | 16 | 22% |
| Unknown | 23 | 31% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Psychology | 15 | 20% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 12 | 16% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 5 | 7% |
| Sports and Recreations | 3 | 4% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3 | 4% |
| Other | 8 | 11% |
| Unknown | 28 | 38% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 August 2018.
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