The use of culturally adapted and translated depression screening questionnaires with South Asian haemodialysis patients in England.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Depression is common amongst patients receiving haemodialysis (HD). Assessment and intervention when faced with language and cultural barriers is challenging. To support clinician decisions, we conducted a cross-sectional study to assess the use of culturally adapted and translated versions of commonly-used depression screening questionnaires with South Asian patients receiving HD in England.

Methods

Patients completed adapted versions of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), the Centre for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale Revised (CESD-R), and the Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-II). All questionnaires were available in Gujarati, Punjabi, Urdu, and Bengali. A comparative sample of white-Europeans completed the questionnaires in English. The research

SUBMITTER: Sharma S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10081747 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature