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Adapting culturally appropriate mental health screening tools for use among conflict-affected and other vulnerable adolescents in Nigeria

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2019
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Kaiser, BN
Ticao, C
Anoje, C
Minto, J
Boglosa, J
Kohrt, BA
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<jats:sec id="S2054425119000086_sec_a1"><jats:title>Background</jats:title><jats:p>The Boko Haram insurgency has brought turmoil and instability to Nigeria, generating a large number of internally displaced people and adding to the country's 17.5 million orphans and vulnerable children. Recently, steps have been taken to improve the mental healthcare infrastructure in Nigeria, including revamping national policies and initiating training of primary care providers in mental healthcare. In order for these efforts to succeed, they require means for community-based detection and linkage to care. A major gap preventing such efforts is the shortage of culturally appropriate, valid screening tools for identifying emotional and behavioral disorders among adolescents. In particular, studies have not conducted simultaneous validation of screening tools in multiple languages, to support screening and detection efforts in linguistically diverse populations. We aim to culturally adapt screening tools for emotional and behavioral disorders for use among adolescents in Nigeria, in order to facilitate future validation studies.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec id="S2054425119000086_sec_a2" sec-type="methods"><jats:title>Methods</jats:title><jats:p>We used a rigorous mixed-method process to culturally adapt the Depression Self Rating Scale, Child PTSD Symptom Scale, and Disruptive Behavior Disorders Rating Scale. We employed expert translations, focus group discussions (<jats:italic>N</jats:italic> = 24), and piloting with cognitive interviewing (<jats:italic>N</jats:italic> = 24) to achieve semantic, content, technical, and criterion equivalence of screening tool items.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec id="S2054425119000086_sec_a3" sec-type="results"><jats:title>Results</jats:title><jats:p>We identified and adapted items that were conceptually difficult for adolescents to understand, conceptually non-equivalent across languages, considered unacceptable to discuss, or stigmatizing. Findings regarding problematic items largely align with existing literature regarding cross-cultural adaptation.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec id="S2054425119000086_sec_a4" sec-type="conclusion"><jats:title>Conclusions</jats:title><jats:p>Culturally adapting screening tools represents a vital first step toward improving community case detection.</jats:p></jats:sec>
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Journal article
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Science & Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Psychiatry
Behavioral disorders
cultural adaptation
depression
PTSD
Nigeria
SELF-REPORTING QUESTIONNAIRE
PRIMARY-CARE SERVICE
PSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY
RATING SCALE
DEPRESSION
CHILD
DISORDERS
VALIDATION
SYMPTOMS
VALIDITY
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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/19066
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10.1017/gmh.2019.8
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Kaiser, BN; Ticao, C; Anoje, C; Minto, J; Boglosa, J; & Kohrt, BA (2019). Adapting culturally appropriate mental health screening tools for use among conflict-affected and other vulnerable adolescents in Nigeria. Global Mental Health, 6. 10.1017/gmh.2019.8. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/19066.
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Kohrt

Brandon A. Kohrt

Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Brandon Kohrt is a medical anthropologist and psychiatrist who completed his MD-PhD at Emory University in 2009. He is currently Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Global Health, and Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. Dr. Kohrt has worked in Nepal since 1996 researching and aiding victims of war including child soldiers. Since 2006 has worked with Transcultural Psychosocial Organization (TPO) Nepal. Dr. Kohrt has been a consultant to The Carter Center Mental Health Program Liberia Init
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