Validation of the 12-item World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 in individuals with schizophrenia, depression, anxiety, and diabetes in Singapore.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is limited evidence on the reliability and validity of the 12-item World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 (WHODAS 2.0) in an Asian patient population with mental and physical disorders. The current study aimed to examine the psychometric properties of the WHODAS 2.0 among patients with schizophrenia, depression, anxiety, and diabetes.

Methods

A total of 1076 patients (M  =  40.9 years, SD  =  14.7) were recruited from the outpatient clinics of a tertiary psychiatric hospital and a primary care clinic. Internal consistency and test-retest reliability, structural validity, convergent validity, agreement, and floor and ceiling effects were examined.

Results

Our confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) showed that the 1-factor model fits o

SUBMITTER: Abdin E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10688897 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature