I am looking for a valid scale to be used in assessing Learned Helplessness in patients at a primary care clinic. If there is such scale and if it is not available in the native language of my country, could I instead use the scale through a structured interview to help patients understand the scale?
If you do not have the resources to translate and back translate the items for an instrument, you can use the instrument to structure interviews with patients. This is a strategy I have used with low literacy patients in the past. If you use this strategy, you will want to document how it was done. You will also need to train you interview staff and do periodic random monitoring to ensure that the interviewers are capturing the best possible data.
Yogarabindranath Swarna Nantha,
Scales for learned helplessness:
Article Development of a Measure Of Learned Helplessness
Article Translation of the Learned Helplessness Scale /
Article Learned Helplessness Among Families and Surrogate Decision-M...
Book Manual for Learned Helplessness Scale
Book Learned Helplessness Scale.
Dear guys,
Thanks so very much for your response. I will look into them and see how I can incorporate them in my study.
Rabin
Dear Sir, I am planning to conduct a study among hearing impaired individuals using learned helplessness as one of my variables. May I know what tool was used in your study? I also would like to know to whom I should ask for approval for its use.
- Badges
- Science topic
- Similar topics
- Medicine
- Epi
- Age Groups
- Children