A scale that will be in a public domain and some information about the psychometrics of the scale (such as reliability and validity).
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What is the actual construct you are interested in?
Mental health/Psychopathology, Resistance, Resilience, Outcomes, etc?
See Tate, R. (2010). A compendium of psychological tests, scales and questionnaires. Madison, WI: Psychology Press.
Maybe the Self-reporting Questionnaire.
Beusenberg, M., Orley, J. H., & World Health Organization. (1994). A User's guide to the self reporting questionnaire (SRQ).
It is widely used
http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/61113/1/WHO_MNH_PSF_94.8.pdf
Check out SCL90-R. Gives a general overview and subscales. You can see in the overview how many answers have been marked positive and their intensity as well. Another one is the Brief Symptom Inventory. But I have no experience with that one. May be it can be obtained for free in the Internet.
What do you want to measure? Detection? Results? There have already been good sugestions of scales for detection. Concerning outcomes ,I would suggest quality of life. Try whooqol, from WHO. Open access.
The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS) measures positive mental health and has been used in prison populations, clinical samples, males, females, adults of working age and older people. It comprises 14 positively-phrased statements and uses a Likert scale. It is a self-report tool and has been adapted and validated for use in other countries. In England the shorter version is used at intervals with individual patients from the point of entering a community mental health service and throughout treatment.
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