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Development of a patient rated scale for mental health global state for use during humanitarian interventions

Llosa AE, Martinez-Viciana C, Carreño C, Evangelidou S, Casas G, Marquer C, Moro MR, Falissard B, Grais RF
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Abstract
OBJECTIVE
We present the results of a cross-cultural validation of the Mental Health Global State (MHGS) scale for adults and adolescents (<14 years old).

METHODS
We performed two independent studies using mixed methods among 103 patients in Hebron, Occupied Palestinian Territories and 106 in Cauca, Colombia. The MHGS was analyzed psychometrically, sensitivity and specificity, ability to detect clinically meaningful change, compared to the Clinical Global Impression-Severity scale (CGI-S). Principal component analysis was used to reduce the number of questions after data collection.

RESULTS
The scale demonstrated good internal consistency, with a Cronbach alpha score of 0.80 in both settings. Test retest reliability was high, ICC 0.70 (95% CI [0.41-0.85]) in Hebron and 0.87 (95% CI [0.76-0.93]) in Cauca; inter-rater reliability was 0.70 (95% CI [0.42-0.85]) in Hebron and 0.76 (95% CI [0.57-0.88]) in Cauca. Psychometric properties were also good, and the tool demonstrated a sensitivity of 85% in Hebron and 100% in Cauca, with corresponding specificity of 80% and 79%, when compared to CGI-S.

CONCLUSIONS
The MHGS showed promising results to assess global mental health thereby providing an additional easy to use tool in humanitarian interventions. Additional work should focus on validation in at least one more context, to adhere to best practices in transcultural validation.

Countries

Colombia Palestine

Subject Area

mental health

Collections

Mental health in humanitarian settings

Languages

English
DOI
10.1002/mpr.1850
Published Date
18 Sep 2020
PubMed ID
32945587
Journal
International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research
Volume | Issue | Pages
Volume 30, Issue 1, Pages e1850
Issue Date
2020-09-18
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