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Getting it Right: Study protocol to determine the diagnostic accuracy of a culturally-specific measure to screen for depression in Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people

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posted on 2021-06-23, 02:35 authored by ML Hackett, S Farnbach, N Glozier, Timothy SkinnerTimothy Skinner, A Teixeira-Pinto, D Askew, G Gee, A Cass, A Brown
Introduction A freely available, culturally valid depression screening tool is required for use by primary care services across Australia to screen for depression in Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander populations. This is the protocol for a study aiming to determine the validity, sensitivity and specificity of the culturally adapted 9-item Patient Health Questionnaire (aPHQ-9). Methods and analysis Cross-sectional validation study. A total of 500 people who self-identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, are ≥18 €...years of age, attending 1 of 10 primary healthcare services or service events across Australia and able to communicate sufficiently to answer study questions will be recruited. All participants will complete the aPHQ-9 and the criterion standard MINI International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI) 6.0.0. The primary outcome is the criterion validity of the aPHQ-9. Process outcomes related to acceptability and feasibility of the aPHQ-9 will be analysed only if the measure is found to be valid. Ethics and dissemination Lead ethical approval was obtained jointly from the University of Sydney Human Research Ethics Committee (project 2014/361) and the Aboriginal Health and Medical Research Council of New South Wales (project 1044/14). Results will be disseminated via the usual scientific forums, including peer-reviewed publications and presentations at international conferences following presentation to, discussion with and approval by participating primary healthcare service staff and community.

Funding

This work was supported by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), Australia grant number APP101767. During the completion of this work, MLH was in receipt of a National Heart Foundation Future Leader Fellowship #100034, SF was in receipt of a University of Sydney Faculty of Medicine Cross Cultural Public Health Research Award and a George Institute for Global Health John Chalmers Program Grant Scholarship, AT-P is partially supported by the NHMRC Program Grant BeatCKD (APP1092957) and AB was in receipt of a Sylvia and Charles Viertel Charitable Foundation Senior Medical Research Fellowship. All authors had full access to the data. All authors had the final responsibility for the decision to submit for publication.

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Publication Date

2016-01-01

Journal

BMJ Open

Volume

6

Issue

12

Article Number

e015009

Pagination

7p.

Publisher

BMJ

ISSN

2044-6055

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