Publications by authors named "Gajanan Velupillai"
Article Synopsis
- Cultural adaptation of psychometric measures for Indigenous populations aims to enhance acceptance, reliability, and validity of depression scales used worldwide.
- A systematic review identified 34 reports on the adaptation processes, focusing on scales such as the PHQ-9, CES-D, and EPDS, utilized in various regions, including Africa, Australia, and North America.
- Key adaptation methods included ensuring cultural appropriateness, linguistic equivalence, safe administration procedures, and engaging communities through qualitative and mixed methods research.
Background: Implementing culturally sensitive psychometric measures of depression may be an effective strategy to improve acceptance, response rate, and reliability of psychological assessment among Indigenous populations. However, the psychometric properties of depression scales after cultural adaptation remain unclear.
Methods: We screened the Ovid Medline, PubMed, Embase, Global Health, PsycInfo, and CINAHL databases through three levels of search terms: Depression, Psychometrics, and Indigenous, following the PRISMA guidelines.
Purpose: We present a study on selection of a psychometric scale to be clinically used among Indigenous people with depression. Our aim was to select a psychometric tool for cultural adaptation with Mohawk and Inuit in Quebec.
Methods: We selected three depression scales and three protective factor scales based on: strong validity for psychometric properties, evidence for good psychometric qualities across translations, avoidance of cognitively complex sentences, brevity, and clarity.