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INITIAL DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW CULTURE‐SPECIFIC SCREEN FOR EMOTIONAL DISTRESS IN OLDERCARIBBEAN PEOPLE
Author(s) -
ABAS MELANIE,
PHILLIPS COURTNEY,
RICHARDS MARCUS,
CARTER JANET,
LEVY RAYMOND
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
international journal of geriatric psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.28
H-Index - 129
eISSN - 1099-1166
pISSN - 0885-6230
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-1166(199612)11:12<1097::aid-gps496>3.0.co;2-8
Subject(s) - distress , psychology , emotional distress , scale (ratio) , clinical psychology , test validity , depression (economics) , psychometrics , test (biology) , cross cultural studies , sample (material) , psychiatry , gerontology , medicine , social psychology , anxiety , paleontology , physics , quantum mechanics , biology , economics , macroeconomics , chemistry , chromatography
Previous research and our own observations suggested that older Caribbean people might use terms for emotional distress that differed from those found in standard screening instruments. Using a combination of qualitative approaches derived from the ‘new cross‐cultural psychiatry’, we have developed a new 13‐item culture‐specific screen containing items which both overlap and differ from those found in, for example, the Geriatric Depression Scale. Further research is in progress to test the validity of this screen in a large community sample.