Developing an appropriate depression and anxiety screening tool for use with Australian First Nations peoples living in the Torres Strait and Northern Peninsula Area of Australia: Protocol for a Delphi study.

ABSTRACT: Tools that screen for depression and anxiety developed using the Western biomedical paradigm are still used with First Nations peoples globally, despite calls for cross-cultural adaption. Recent work by the research team found that tools used to screen for depression and anxiety were not appropriate for use with Australian First Nations peoples living in the Torres Strait and Northern Peninsula Area (NPA). of Australia. Consequently, the objective of this Delphi study is to gain consensus from an expert mental health panel to inform the development of an appropriate depression and anxiety screening tool(s). A Delphi study with Australian expert panellists will be used to reach consensus about whether an existing screening tool should be used or whether adaption or new tool development shou

SUBMITTER: Meldrum K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10703283 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature