Rating scales validated for Sri Lankan populations: an update

In psychiatry, rating scales are used widely for many purposes – to screen, diagnose, and monitor for symptoms, and for research purposes. Most scales used in the field of psychiatry have been formulated in the West. However local use of these scales can be limited, since they have not been culturally adapted and validated to the Sri Lankan setting. With the increased use of rating scales in current day to day practice, the need to culturally adapt and validate rating scales have increased. Increasing research in the field of psychiatry may also have contributed to the increased need for validation of existing scales for the Sri Lankan setting. Our article ‘Rating scales validated for Sri Lankan Populations’ published in 2013 was an attempt to fill this void (1). The objective of this article is to update our previous article, by examining for rating scales adapted and/or validated for the Sri Lankan population from 2013 to 2020, in the Sinhala and Tamil languages.