Adaptation and Latent Structure of the Swahili Version of Beck Depression Inventory-II in a Low Literacy Population in the Context of HIV.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We set out to adapt the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)-II in Kenya and examine its factorial structure.

Methods

In the first phase we carried out in-depth interviews involving 29 adult members of the community to elicit their understanding of depression and identify aspects of the BDI-II that required adaptation. In the second phase, a modified version of BDI-II was administered to 221 adults randomly selected from the community to allow for the evaluation of its psychometric properties. In the third phase of the study we evaluated the discriminative validity of BDI-11 by comparing a randomly chosen community sample (n = 29) with caregivers of adolescents affected by HIV (n = 77).

Results

A considerable overlap between the BDI symptoms and those generated i

SUBMITTER: Abubakar A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4892521 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature