Are the PHQ-9 and GAD-7 Suitable for Use in India? A Psychometric Analysis

Frontiers in Psychology

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Jeroen De Man¹  Pilvikki Absetz²  Thirunavukkarasu Sathish⁴  Allissa Desloge⁵  Tilahun Haregu⁵  Brian Oldenburg⁵  Leslie C. M. Johnson⁶  Kavumpurathu Raman Thankappan⁸  Emily D. Williams⁹ 

[1] Department of Family Medicine and Population Health, University of Antwerp;Collaborative Care Systems Finland, Tampere University;University of Eastern Finland;Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University;Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne;Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Emory University, United States;Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, United States;Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Central University of Kerala;School of Health Sciences, University of Surrey, United Kingdom

关键词: Patient Health Questionnaire;    India;    measurement invariance;    depression;    generalized anxiety disorder assessment;    sum score reliability;    confirmatory bifactor modeling;    omega hierarchical;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2021.676398

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Background Cross-cultural evidence on the factorial structure and invariance of the PHQ-9 and the GAD-7 is lacking for South Asia. Recommendations on the use of unit-weighted scores of these scales (the sum of items’ scores) are not well-founded. This study aims to address these contextual and methodological gaps using data from a rural Indian population.

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