I'd be grateful if anyone could direct me to where I might find rating scales for assessment of anxiety/depression in South Asian languages - such as Urdu/Punjabi/Bengali/etc.
Depression, anxiety and stress scale: Reliability and ...
www2.psy.unsw.edu.au/DASS/Hindi/Hindi adaptation of DASS IJEM 2013.pdf
Hindi adaption of the DASS scale could be used in Indian clinical and non-clinical settings. Keywords: depression; anxiety; stress; Hindi adaptation The Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS) is a promising 42-item Nieuwenhuijsen et al., 2003) have confirmed that the DASS items can self-reported measurement scale of depression, anxiety, and stress be reliably grouped into three scales: (a) Depression (DASS-D), (b) (Lovibond & Lovibond, 1995). Theoretically, the DASS corres- Anxiety (DASS-A), and (c) Stress (DASS-S). The Depression Scale ponds with the tripartite model of anxiety and depression (Clark & includes items that measure symptoms typically associated with Watson, 1991). This model suggests that anxiety and depression have dysphoric mood (e.g., sadness or worthlessness). Anxiety Scale, like both shared and unique features. Depression is uniquely the BAI, includes items that are primarily related to symptoms of characterized by low positive affect and anhedonia, while anxiety physical arousal, panic attacks, and fear (e.g., trembling or faintness). has physiological hyperarousal as a unique feature. Depression and Finally, Stress Scale includes items that measure symptoms such as anxiety have a non-specific factor of general distress in common. tension, irritability, and a tendency to overreact to stressful events This tripartite view has been supported in a variety of studies, symptoms that are not assessed by the BAI. The survey of available including factor analytic studies by Watson et al. (1995a, 1995b), and literature regarding psychometric properties ofDASSindicatesthat all Endler, et al (2003), which revealed three separate variables (general of these studies used English version of the scale with English distress, anhedonia vs. positive effect, and somatic anxiety). speaking participants. This situation raises a question about the Based on their review of psychometric literature some researchers external validity ofthe findings ofthese studies.Thus,the presentresehave concluded that earliermeasures of anxiety and depression involve arch focused on the question whether the previousfindings pertaining overlapping contents and correlate with one another quite highly to the reliability and validity aswell assimple factorstructure ofDASS (Clark, 1989;Moras, et al., 1992). Further, the trait version ofthe State- can be generalized to participants for whom English is a second and Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI-T; Spielberger, 1983) is at least as sometimesthird language. The purpose of the present research wasto sensitive to symptoms of depression as it is to symptoms of anxiety translate DASS in to Hindi language and obtain reliability and validity (Be forfurtheruse inclinical andnonclinicalpopulation. iling, et al., 1998).
This is a 21-item scale measured on a 4-point rating scale (0–3), “0” denoting “did not apply to me at all” and “3” denoting “applied to me very much, or most of the time.” The Cronbach alpha for Stress (English =0.71; Hindi =0.63), Depression (English =0.76; Hindi =0.70), and Anxiety (English =0.73; Hindi =0.74) were acceptable.
Mar 23, 2021 · Anxiety General Anxiety Disorder Assessment (GAD-7) The GAD-7 is a seven question self-rating scale that is commonly used in screening for adult anxiety. (In Hindi)
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Multilingual Mental Health Assessment Tools - Transcultural Mental Health Centre (nsw.gov.au) has the Geriatric Depression Scale in Bengali, Urdu, Hindi
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The Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS) Urdu is a set of three self -report scales designed to measure the negative emotional states of depression, anxiety, and stress. the depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS) was constructed not merely as another set of scales to measure conventionally defined emotional states, but to further the process of defining, understanding, and measuring the ubiquitous and clinically significant emotional states usually described as depression, anxiety and stress.
Jan 26, 2007 · The mean (SD) anxiety subscale score on the Punjabi and English version of the HADS (Hospital Anxiety and depression) was 8.36 (4.79) and 8.16 (4.88), respectively. ...