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World Mental Health: Composite International Diagnostic Interview
Source: World Health Organization (WHO)Format: TextAnnotation: The Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) is a comprehensive, fully-structured interview designed to be used by trained lay interviewers for the assessment of mental disorders according to the definitions and criteria of the ICD-10 (International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision) and DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition). It is intended for use in epidemiological and cross-cultural studies, as well as for clinical and research purposes. The diagnostic section of the interview is based on the World Health Organization (WHO)'s Composite. This resource was identified by the NIH Disaster Research Response Program (DR2) for researchers looking for pre- and post-disaster data collection instruments.
Ease of Use in Disaster Setting: Difficult
Population: Adults Only
Length: Highly dependent upon modules selected for use. There are 42 modules of varying lengths. The CIDI-Core contains 20 major questions and 59 sub-questions, and takes approximately 75 minutes to administer, including all possible sub-questions.
Time to Complete: Approximately two hours for most general population samples. Total time to administer is highly variable and dependent upon the modules selected for use, whether the interviewee screens positive for a module, and the population being studied (certain populations may require the use of optional/additional modules).
Administered by: Lay Interviewer, Specialist/Doctor/Expert
Special Considerations: Training at an official CIDI Training and Reference Center (TRC) is required to use the CIDI. This is true whether you want to use only a single section or the entire instrument. Training is offered on a regular schedule, and you can sign up as an individual trainee, in which case you will have to travel to a TRC for the training. If you have a group of people who need to be trained, you can arrange for CIDI trainers to come to your site for a special training session. Training is three to five days in classroom, plus 30 hours of home study. There is a certification assessment at the end of the in-person training; only trainees who pass this assessment are approved as certified WHO WMH-CIDI users.
Language(s): English, Arabic, Spanish, and Dutch; contact publisher for guidance and translations for other languages....[See more] [See less]Type: Guideline/Assessment ToolAccess Notes: Proprietary - Training Required
Citation(s):
Meewisse ML, Olff M, Kleber R, Kitchiner NJ, Gersons BP. The course of mental health disorders after a disaster: predictors and comorbidity. J Trauma Stress. 2011 Aug;24(4):405-13. Epub 2011 Aug 3. PubMed PMID: 21815216. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21815216. Subscription required.
Wittchen HU, Robins LN, Cottler LB, Sartorius N, Burke JD, Regier D. Cross-cultural feasibility, reliability and sources of variance of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI). The Multicentre WHO/ADAMHA Field Trials. Br J Psychiatry. 1991 Nov;159:645-53, 658. Erratum in: Br J Psychiatry 1992 Jan;160:136. PubMed PMID: 1756340. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1756340. Subscription required.
Wittchen HU. Reliability and validity studies of the WHO--Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI): a critical review. J Psychiatr Res. 1994 Jan-Feb;28(1):57-84. Review. PubMed PMID: 8064641. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8064641. Subscription required.
Kessler RC, Ustun TB. World Mental Health (WMH) Survey Initiative version of the World Health Organization (WHO) Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI). Int J Methods Psychiatr Res. 2004; 13(2):93-121.Includes Research Tools: Yes.ID: 8058. From: Disaster Lit®a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. -
UCLA (University of California at Los Angeles) PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) Index for DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition)
Source: National Center for PTSD [Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder] [U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs]Format: TextAnnotation: This instrument examines reactions to trauma in school-age children and adolescents to screen for exposure to traumatic events and assess post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. It can be used as a self report (completed on paper, suitable for one-to-one or group administration), or given verbally where questions are read to the child. The test has excellent psychometric properties, and has been used across a variety of trauma types, age ranges, settings, and cultures. The scale assesses the frequency of occurrence of PTSD symptoms during the past month (rated from 0=none of the time to 4=most of the time). The items map directly onto DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition) intrusion, avoidance, and arousal criteria, while two additional items assess associated features (fear of recurrence and trauma-related guilt). This resource was identified by the NIH Disaster Research Response Program (DR2) for researchers looking for pre- and post-disaster data collection instruments.
Ease of Use in Disaster Setting: Moderate
Flesch-Kincaid Reading Level: Grade 5.1
Population: Children/Teens Only
Length: 20 questions
Time to Complete: 20 to 30 minutes
Administered by: Self Administered/Self Report, Lay Interviewer, Specialist/Doctor/Expert
Special Considerations: Interpretation should be completed by a trained clinician who possesses a master's degree or higher; prior experience in Psychological Testing/Interpretation and use of tool specific manual/video recommended.
Language(s): English, Arabic, Armenian, Chinese, Farsi, Persian, Filipino, Tagalog, French, German, Greek, Cantonese, Hebrew, Japanese, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, Visayan, and Nyanja...[See more] [See less]Type: Guideline/Assessment ToolAccess Notes: Proprietary - Cost/Purchase required
Citation(s):
Kilmer RP, Gil-Rivas V, Tedeschi RG, Cann A, Calhoun LG, Buchanan T, Taku K. Use of the revised Posttraumatic Growth Inventory for Children. J Trauma Stress. 2009 Jun;22(3):248-53. PubMed PMID: 19462437. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19462437. Subscription not required.
Steinberg AM, Brymer MJ, Decker KB, Pynoos RS. The University of California at Los Angeles Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Reaction Index. Curr Psychiatry Rep. 2004 Apr;6(2):96-100. Review. PubMed PMID: 15038911. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15038911. Subscription required.
Steinberg AM, Brymer MJ, Kim S, Briggs EC, Ippen CG, Ostrowski SA, Gully KJ, Pynoos RS. Psychometric properties of the UCLA PTSD reaction index: part I. J Trauma Stress. 2013 Feb;26(1):1-9. doi: 10.1002/jts.21780. PubMed PMID: 23417873. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23417873. Subscription required.
Elhai JD, Layne CM, Steinberg AM, Brymer MJ, Briggs EC, Ostrowski SA, Pynoos RS. Psychometric properties of the UCLA PTSD reaction index. part II: investigating factor structure findings in a national clinic-referred youth sample. J Trauma Stress. 2013 Feb;26(1):10-8. doi: 10.1002/jts.21755. PubMed PMID: 23417874. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23417874. Subscription required.
The University of California requires a licensing agreement for the use of the scale.
Contact information:
Institution: University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Trauma Psychiatry Service
Address: 300 Medical Plaza, Suite 2232
Los Angeles, CA 90095-6968
Phone: 310-206-8973
Email: HFinley@mednet.ucla.edu, rpynoos@mednet.ucla.edu
Contact person: Melissa Brymer
Institution: National Center for Child Traumatic Stress
Address: 11150 West Olympic Boulevard, Suite 650
Los Angeles, CA 90064
Email: mbrymer@mednet.ucla.edu
For more information:
Institution: National Child Traumatic Stress Network
Web: http://mediasite.nctsn.org/NCTSN/Viewer/?peid=96c76814bfb74853aa49be35e9eaca78; http://www.nctsn.org/content/ucla-posttraumatic-stress-disorder-reaction-index-dsm-iv
This link is no longer available. 10/20/2017.Includes Research Tools: Yes.ID: 8059. From: Disaster Lit®a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. -
COPE: Complete Version
Source: University of Miami (UM)Format: TextAnnotation: This is a multidimensional coping inventory to assess the different ways in which people respond to stress. Five scales (of four items each) measure conceptually distinct aspects of problem-focused coping; five scales measure aspects of what might be viewed as emotion-focused coping; and three scales measure coping responses that arguably are less useful (with a focus on and venting of emotions, behavioral disengagement, and mental disengagement). An abbreviated version of the COPE Inventory, the Brief COPE, can be used when there are constraints to time or other factors. This resource was identified by the NIH Disaster Research Response Program (DR2) for researchers looking for pre- and post-disaster data collection instruments.
Ease of Use in Disaster Setting: Moderate
Flesch-Kincaid Reading Level: Grade 4.9
Population: Adults Only
Length: 60 questions
Time to Complete: 10 to 15 Minutes
Administered by: Self Administered/Self Report
Language(s): English, Spanish, French, Greek, Romanian, German, Dutch, Italian, Croatian, and Swedish....[See more] [See less]Type: Guideline/Assessment ToolAccess Notes: Free/Publicly Available
Citation(s):
Oni O, Harville EW, Xiong X, Buekens P. Impact of coping styles on posttraumatic stress disorder and depressive symptoms among pregnant women exposed to Hurricane Katrina. Am J Disaster Med. 2012 Summer;7(3):199-209. PubMed PMID: 23140063. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23140063. Subscription required.
Carver CS, Scheier MF, Weintraub JK. Assessing coping strategies: a theoretically based approach. J Pers Soc Psychol. 1989 Feb;56(2):267-83. PubMed PMID: 2926629. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2926629. Subscription required.
Carver CS. You want to measure coping but your protocol's too long: consider the brief COPE. Int J Behav Med. 1997;4(1):92-100. PubMed PMID: 16250744. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16250744. Subscription required.
No cost for academic use.
Contact information:
Contact person: Charles Carver
Institution: University of Miami
Phone: 305-284-2817
Email: ccarver@miami.edu
For more information and additional links to this tool and other versions of this tool:
Institution: University of Miami
Web: https://www.gem-measures.org/public/MeasureDetail.aspx?mid=1195&cat=2
Brief COPE Inventory
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Epi Info InstructionsIncludes Research Tools: Yes.ID: 8062. From: Disaster Lit®a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. -
Clinician-Administered PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) Scale (CAPS)
Source: National Center for PTSD [Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder] [U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs]Format: TextAnnotation: CAPS (Clinician-Administered PTSD [Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder] Scale) is the gold standard in PTSD assessment. CAPS is a 30-item structured interview that corresponds to the DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition) criteria for PTSD. CAPS can be used to make a current (past month) or lifetime diagnosis of PTSD or to assesses symptoms over the past week. This resource was identified by the NIH Disaster Research Response Program (DR2) for researchers looking for pre- and post-disaster data collection instruments.
Ease of Use in Disaster Setting: Difficult
Population: Adults Only
Length: 30 questions plus sub-questions and branching
Time to Complete: 45 minutes to one hour
Administered by: Lay Interviewer, Specialist/Doctor/Expert
Special Considerations: CAPS was designed to be administered by clinicians and clinical researchers who have a working knowledge of PTSD, but can also be administered by appropriately trained paraprofessionals.
Language(s): English, Dutch, Spanish, Farsi, Pashto, Swedish, Bosnian, Chinese, German, Cambodian, and Albanian...[See more] [See less]Type: Guideline/Assessment ToolAccess Notes: Permission/Request required
Citation(s):
Wang L, Zhang J, Shi Z, Zhou M, Li Z, Zhang K, Liu Z, Elhai JD. Comparing alternative factor models of PTSD symptoms across earthquake victims and violent riot witnesses in China: evidence for a five-factor model proposed by Elhai et al. (2011). J Anxiety Disord. 2011 Aug;25(6):771-6. Epub 2011 Mar 24. PubMed PMID: 21514096. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21514096. Subscription required.
Blake DD, Weathers FW, Nagy LM, Kaloupek DG, Gusman FD, Charney DS, Keane TM. The development of a Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale. J Trauma Stress. 1995 Jan;8(1):75-90. Review. PubMed PMID: 7712061. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7712061. Subscription required.
Weathers FW, Keane TM, Davidson JR. Clinician-administered PTSD scale: a review of the first ten years of research. Depress Anxiety. 2001;13(3):132-56. Review. PubMed PMID: 11387733. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11387733. Subscription required.
For access to the tool, submit request to:
Institution: National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) (116D)
Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Address: 215 N. Main St.
White River Junction, VT 05009
Web: https://www.ptsd.va.gov/professional/assessment/ncptsd-instrument-request-form.aspIncludes Research Tools: Yes.ID: 8063. From: Disaster Lit®a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. -
DICA-IV: Diagnostic Interview for Children and Adolescents-IV
Source: Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL)Format: PDFAnnotation: This is a semi-structured interview with conversational elements, administered to parents and children for purposes of classifying childhood psychiatric disorders in the general population. The DICA-IV is a revised version of the DICA. In 1988, the DICA-IV was developed to classify DSM-III-R (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 3rd Edition, revised) categories of disorders. The DICA-IV consists of three versions nearly identical in structure and content: one for children aged 6 to 12 (DICA-C), another for adolescents aged 13 to 17 (DICA-A), and a parent version that covers the 6-to-17-year-old age span (DICA-P). This resource was identified by the NIH Disaster Research Response Program (DR2) for researchers looking for pre- and post-disaster data collection instruments.
Ease of Use in Disaster Setting: Difficult
Population: Children/Teens Only
Length: Dependent upon symptom questions and answers endorsed by interviewee; DICA-R PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) Module has 17 items.
Time to Complete: One to two hours total; 5 to 20 minutes per category
Administered by: Lay Interviewer, Specialist/Doctor/Expert, Self Administered/Self Report (in cases where computerized version is used to administer interview)
Special Considerations: Minimum training for interviewers can be anywhere from two to four weeks. Interview can be administered to parents, teachers, and children between the ages of 6 to 17 by someone with a minimum of a bachelors degree and training/experience as a research assistant. Interviewee must have competent reading ability in cases where computerized self administration/self report is used.
Language(s): English, Spanish, and Arabic....[See more] [See less]Type: Guideline/Assessment ToolAccess Notes: Proprietary - Cost/Purchase required
Citation(s):
Jones RT, Ribbe DP, Cunningham P. Psychosocial correlates of fire disaster among children and adolescents. J Trauma Stress. 1994 Jan;7(1):117-22. PubMed PMID: 8044435. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8044435. Subscription not required.
Herjanic B, Campbell W. Differentiating psychiatrically disturbed children on the basis of a structured interview. J Abnorm Child Psychol. 1977;5(2):127-34. PubMed PMID: 886089. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/886089. Subscription required.
Herjanic B, Reich W. Development of a structured psychiatric interview for children: agreement between child and parent on individual symptoms. J Abnorm Child Psychol. 1982 Sep;10(3):307-24. PubMed PMID: 7175040. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7175040. Subscription required.
Ezpeleta L, de la Osa N, Domenech JM, Navarro JB, Losilla JM, Judez J. Diagnostic agreement between clinicians and the Diagnostic Interview for Children and Adolescents--DICA-R--in an outpatient sample. J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 1997 May;38(4):431-40. PubMed PMID: 9232488. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9232488. Subscription required.
Reich W. Diagnostic interview for children and adolescents (DICA). J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2000 Jan;39(1):59-66. PubMed PMID: 10638068. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10638068. Subscription required.
Available Format: CD ROM
DICA-IV Not available in Public Domain.
Contact information:
Contact person: Wendy Reich, PhD
Institution: Washington University in St. Louis, School of Medicine, Division of Child Psychiatry
Address: 660 Euclid Ave.
Campus Box 8134
St. Louis, MO 63110
Phone: 314-286-2263
Email: Wendyr@Twins.Wustl.edu
This link is no longer available. 3/14/2018.Includes Research Tools: Yes.ID: 8064. From: Disaster Lit®a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. -
Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS)
Source: Government of Western AustraliaFormat: PDFAnnotation: The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) was developed for screening postpartum women in outpatient, home visiting settings, or at the six-to-eight-week postpartum examination. It has been utilized among numerous populations, including U.S. women and Spanish-speaking women in other countries. This resource was identified by the NIH Disaster Research Response Program (DR2) for researchers looking for pre- and post-disaster data collection instruments.
Ease of Use in Disaster Setting: Easy
Flesch-Kincaid Reading Level: Grade 4.6
Population: High Risk/Special/Unique Population
Length: 10 questions
Time to Complete: Five minutes or less
Administered by: Self Administered/Self Report
Language(s): English, Arabic, Afaan Oromo, Chinese, Amharic, Dutch, Czech, French, Farsi/Persian, German, Filipino/Tagalog, Igbo, Greek, Italian, Hebrew, Japanese, Hindi, Malay, Indonesian, Maltese, Khmer/Cambodian, Norwegian, Korean, Portuguese, Macedonian, Punjabi, Myanmar/Burmese, South Africa English, Serbian, Spanish, Slovenian, Swedish, Somali, Turkish, Thai, Vietnamese, and Urdu
For more information on translations, see "Using the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS): Translated into languages other than English."
Institution: Government of Western Australia
Web: http://kemh.health.wa.gov.au/health_professionals/WHCSU/resources.php. Scroll down....[See more] [See less]Type: Guideline/Assessment ToolAccess Notes: Free/Publicly Available
Citation(s):
Oni O, Harville EW, Xiong X, Buekens P. Impact of coping styles on posttraumatic stress disorder and depressive symptoms among pregnant women exposed to Hurricane Katrina. Am J Disaster Med. 2012 Summer;7(3):199-209. PubMed PMID: 23140063. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23140063. Subscription required.
Cox JL, Holden JM, Sagovsky R. Detection of postnatal depression. Development of the 10-item Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale. Br J Psychiatry. 1987 Jun;150:782-6. PubMed PMID: 3651732. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3651732. Subscription required.
Eberhard-Gran M, Eskild A, Tambs K, Opjordsmoen S, Samuelsen SO. Review of validation studies of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale. Acta Psychiatr Scand. 2001 Oct;104(4):243-9. PubMed PMID: 11722298. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11722298. Subscription required.
Wisner KL, Parry BL, Piontek CM. Clinical practice. Postpartum depression. N Engl J Med. 2002 Jul 18;347(3):194-9. Review. PubMed PMID: 12124409. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12124409. Subscription required.
Users may reproduce this scale without further permission providing they respect the copyright (which remains with the British Journal of Psychiatry), quote the names of the authors, and include the title and the source of the paper in all reproduced copies. Use the following citation to give proper credit for use of this tool: Cox, J.L., Holden, J.M. and Sagovsky, R. (1987). Detection of postnatal depression: Development of the 10-item Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale. British Journal of Psychiatry, 150, 782-786.
For more information:
Institution: Elliot Hospital
Web: http://www.elliothospital.org/website/downloads/EPDSw_self-referralcriteria.pdf
Institution: New Jersey Department of Health
Web: http://www.nj.gov/health/fhs/maternalchild/mentalhealth/professionals/
Web: http://www.nj.gov/health/fhs/maternalchild/documents/PPD-Edinburgh-Scale.pdf
Institution: University of California, San Francisco, Fresno Medical Education and Research
Web: https://medicine.ucsf.edu/about/locations/ucsf-fresno-medical-education-research-programIncludes Research Tools: Yes.ID: 8065. From: Disaster Lit®a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. -
Sheehan Disability Scale (SDS)
Source: University of South Florida (USF)Format: PDFAnnotation: This tool measures impairment in functioning. The scale generates four scores: a work disability score, a social life disability score, a family life disability score, and a total score. The Sheehan Disability Scale (SDS) (Sheehan, 1983) is a composite of three self-rated items designed to measure the extent to which three major sectors in the patient's life are impaired by panic, anxiety, or phobic or depressive symptoms. The SDS utilizes an anchored visual analog scale that uses visual-spatial, numeric, and verbal descriptive anchors simultaneously to assess disability across the previously described domains (work, social life, and family life). The scale was thus designed because some people rate numerically ("he was 1.9 meters tall"), others use verbal descriptive anchors ("he was very tall"), and still others communicate their rating spatio-visually (using their hands to point while commenting "he was this tall"). This resource was identified by the NIH Disaster Research Response Program (DR2) for researchers looking for pre- and post-disaster data collection instruments.
Ease of Use in Disaster Setting: Easy
Population: Adults Only
Length: Three questions (plus two optional questions)
Time to Complete: Five minutes or less
Administered by: Self Administered/Self Report, Lay Interviewer, Specialist/Doctor/Expert
Language(s): English, Afrikaans, French, Malay, Setswana, Arabic, German, Malayalam, Spanish, Bulgarian, Greek, Gujarati, Marathi, Swedish, Cebuano, Hebrew, Norwegian, Tamil, Chinese-Mandarin, Hindi, Filipino, Slovak, Punjabi, Ilocano, Serbian, Korean, Hiligaynon, Croatian, Bengali, Dutch, Estonian, Telugu, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Thai, Danish, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish, Dutch, Japanese and Kannada, Romanian, Ukrainian, Latvian, Russian, Xhosa, Finnish, Lithuanian, Sesotho, Bahasa, and Zulu.
All of these translations and the English language originals can be downloaded free from https://eprovide.mapi-trust.org/instruments/sheehan-disability-scale#languages....[See more] [See less]Type: Guideline/Assessment ToolAccess Notes: Free/Publicly Available
Citation(s):
Pietrzak RH, Schechter CB, Bromet EJ, Katz CL, Reissman DB, Ozbay F, Sharma V, Crane M, Harrison D, Herbert R, Levin SM, Luft BJ, Moline JM, Stellman JM, Udasin IG, Landrigan PJ, Southwick SM. The burden of full and sub-syndromal posttraumatic stress disorder among police involved in the World Trade Center rescue and recovery effort. J Psychiatr Res. 2012 Jul;46(7):835-42. Epub 2012 Mar 30. PubMed PMID: 22464942. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22464942. Subscription required.
Sheehan KH, Sheehan DV. Assessing treatment effects in clinical trials with the discan metric of the Sheehan Disability Scale. Int Clin Psychopharmacol. 2008 Mar;23(2):70-83. doi: 10.1097/YIC.0b013e3282f2b4d6. Review. PubMed PMID: 18301121. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18301121. Subscription required.
Sheehan DV, Harnett-Sheehan K, Raj BA. The measurement of disability. Int Clin Psychopharmacol. 1996 Jun;11 Suppl 3:89-95. Review. PubMed PMID: 8923116. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8923116. Subscription required.
Contact information:
Contact person: David V. Sheehan, MD, MBA
Institution: University of South Florida, Institute for Research in Psychiatry
Address: 3515 East Fletcher Ave.
Tampa, FL 33613-4788
Phone: 813-974-4544
Fax: 813-974-4575
Email: Dsheehan@hsc.usf.edu
For more information:
Institution: California Mental Health Services Authority
Web: http://calmhsa.org/Includes Research Tools: Yes.ID: 8066. From: Disaster Lit®a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. -
Life Experiences Survey
Source: University of Washington (UW)Format: PDFAnnotation: The goal of this measure is to obtain a self report of positive and negative events experienced over the previous year, and the perceived stress associated with those events.
Ease of Use in Disaster Setting: Moderate
Population: Adults Only
Length: 57 to 60 questions, depending on version of instrument being used. The 1978 version of this questionnaire contains 60 items.
Time to Complete: 10 to 15 minutes
Administered by: Self Administered/Self Report
Language(s): English, Spanish, and Afrikaans...[See more] [See less]Type: Guideline/Assessment ToolAccess Notes: Permission/Request Required
Citation(s):
Dancause KN, Laplante DP, Fraser S, Brunet A, Ciampi A, Schmitz N, King S. Prenatal exposure to a natural disaster increases risk for obesity in 5½-year-old children. Pediatr Res. 2012 Jan;71(1):126-31. PubMed PMID: 22289861. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22289861. Subscription not required.
Sarason IG, Johnson JH, Siegel JM. Assessing the impact of life changes: development of the Life Experiences Survey. J Consult Clin Psychol. 1978 Oct;46(5):932-46. PubMed PMID: 701572. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/701572. Subscription required.
PsycNET record: http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/ccp/46/5/932/
Amaro H, Fried LE, Cabral H, Zuckerman B. Violence during pregnancy and substance use. Am J Public Health. 1990 May;80(5):575-9. PubMed PMID: 2327535; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC1404633. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2327535. Subscription not required.
Contact information:
Contact person: Dr. Irvin G. Sarason, Psychology Professor
Institution: University of Washington, College of Arts and Sciences, Public Health Sciences Division
Address: 119A Guthrie Hall, Box 351525, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-1525
Phone: 206-685-3157
Email: isarason@u.washington.edu
For more information:
Institution: Defense Technical Information Center
Web: http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a027527.pdf; survey is in Appendix A, p. 28.Includes Research Tools: Yes.ID: 8067. From: Disaster Lit®a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. -
Life Events Checklist for DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition) (LEC-5)
Source: National Center for PTSD [Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder] [U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs]Format: TextAnnotation: This is a self report measure designed to screen for potentially traumatic events in a respondent's lifetime. The Life Events Checklist (LEC) was developed concurrently with the Clinician-Administered PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) Scale (CAPS) and is administered before the CAPS. There are three versions of the LEC: Standard self report, to establish if an event occurred; the Extended self report, to establish a worst event if more than one; and the Interview version to establish if Criterion A is met. This resource was identified by the NIH Disaster Research Response Program (DR2) for researchers looking for pre- and post-disaster data collection instruments.
Ease of Use in Disaster Setting: Easy
Population: Adults Only
Length: 17 questions
Time to Complete: Not specified/given
Administered by: Self Administered/Self Report, Lay Interviewer, Specialist/Doctor/Expert
Language(s): English, Chinese, Korean, Xhosa, and Cantonese...[See more] [See less]Type: Guideline/Assessment ToolAccess Notes: Free/Publicly Available
Citation(s):
Arnberg FK, Hultman CM, Michel PO, Lundin T. Social support moderates posttraumatic stress and general distress after disaster. J Trauma Stress. 2012 Dec;25(6):721-7. PubMed PMID: 23184348. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23184348. Subscription required.
Gray MJ, Litz BT, Hsu JL, Lombardo TW. Psychometric properties of the life events checklist. Assessment. 2004 Dec;11(4):330-41. PubMed PMID: 15486169. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15486169. Subscription required.
Bae H, Kim D, Koh H, Kim Y, Park JS. Psychometric properties of the life events checklist-Korean version. Psychiatry Investig. 2008 Sep;5(3):163-7. doi: 10.4306/pi.2008.5.3.163. Epub 2008 Sep 30. PubMed PMID: 20046360; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2796024. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20046360. Subscription not required.Includes Research Tools: Yes.ID: 8068. From: Disaster Lit®a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. -
K10 (Kessler 10) and K6 (Kessler 6) Scales
Source: Harvard University, Harvard Medical School (HMS)Format: TextAnnotation: The K6 and K10 scales are widely recommended as simple measures of psychological distress and as measures of outcomes following treatment for common mental health disorders. Questions ask about depressive and anxiety symptoms that a person has experienced in the most recent four-week period. The self report style of the questions assists in the identification of current mental health problems and whether there is a need for treatment. The K6 is merely a truncated form of the K10 in which four questions have been removed. The question series presented here includes not only the six or 10 Likert scale questions in the scales, but also a number of other questions that are routinely administered along with the scales to learn about persistence and impairment. These additional questions are not required to score the K6 or K10. This resource was identified by the NIH Disaster Research Response Program (DR2) for researchers looking for pre- and post-disaster data collection instruments.
Ease of Use in Disaster Setting: Easy
Flesch-Kincaid Reading Level: Grade K6=6.7; K10=6.3
Population: Adults Only
Length: Six or 10 items depending on version; K6-Six questions; K10-10 questions
Time to Complete: Not specified/given
Administered by: Self Administered/Self Report, Lay Interviewer, Specialist/Doctor/Expert
Special Considerations: The K10 and the K6 scales are administered in Australia using an alternate scoring system based on responses of "1-5" versus the "0-4" system presented here. This alternate system results in a score range of 6 to 30 for the K6 and 10 to 50 for the K10. The optimal cut point on the K6 for this system is 6-18 versus 19+.
Language(s): English, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Chinese (Mandarin/Cantonese), Italian, Japanese, Swahili, Nepali, Hebrew, French, and Sinhalese...[See more] [See less]Type: Guideline/Assessment ToolAccess Notes: Free/Publicly Available
No formal request is needed, but the authors would appreciate it if users cited the following article citation when they use the scale, and if they would send the authors citations to all publications that use the scale:
Kessler RC, Barker PR, Colpe LJ, Epstein JF, Gfroerer JC, Hiripi E, Howes MJ, Normand SL, Manderscheid RW, Walters EE, Zaslavsky AM. Screening for serious mental illness in the general population. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2003 Feb;60(2):184-9.
Citation(s):
Alderman K, Turner LR, Tong S. Assessment of the health impacts of the 2011 summer floods in Brisbane. Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2013 Aug;7(4):380-6. PubMed PMID: 24229521. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24229521. Subscription required.
Kessler RC, Andrews G, Colpe LJ, Hiripi E, Mroczek DK, Normand SL, Walters EE, Zaslavsky AM. Short screening scales to monitor population prevalences and trends in non-specific psychological distress. Psychol Med. 2002 Aug;32(6):959-76. PubMed PMID: 12214795. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12214795. Subscription required.
Kessler RC, Barker PR, Colpe LJ, Epstein JF, Gfroerer JC, Hiripi E, Howes MJ, Normand SL, Manderscheid RW, Walters EE, Zaslavsky AM. Screening for serious mental illness in the general population. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2003 Feb;60(2):184-9. PubMed PMID: 12214795. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12214795. Subscription required.
Green JG, Gruber MJ, Sampson NA, Zaslavsky AM, Kessler RC. Improving the K6 short scale to predict serious emotional disturbance in adolescents in the USA. Int J Methods Psychiatr Res. 2010 Jun;19 Suppl 1:23-35. doi: 10.1002/mpr.314.PubMed PMID: 20527003; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3686478. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20527003. Subscription not required.
Kessler RC, Green JG, Gruber MJ, Sampson NA, Bromet E, Cuitan M, Furukawa TA, Gureje O, Hinkov H, Hu CY, Lara C, Lee S, Mneimneh Z, Myer L, Oakley-Browne M, Posada-Villa J, Sagar R, Viana MC, Zaslavsky AM. Screening for serious mental illness in the general population with the K6 screening scale: results from the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) survey initiative. Int J Methods Psychiatr Res. 2010 Jun;19 Suppl 1:4-22. doi: 10.1002/mpr.310. Erratum in: Int J Methods Psychiatr Res. 2011 Mar;20(1):62. PubMed PMID: 20527002; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3659799. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20527002. Subscription not required.
For additional copies of the scales:
Institution: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Web: http://www.integration.samhsa.gov/clinical-practice/screening-tools
Institution: Australian Mental Health Outcomes and Classification Network
Web: http://www.amhocn.org/sites/default/files/publication_files/review_of_nocc_measures_version_1.2.pdfIncludes Research Tools: Yes.ID: 8070. From: Disaster Lit®a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
