dc.contributor.author | Ndetei David M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Othieno, CJ | |
dc.contributor.author | Mutiso, V | |
dc.contributor.author | Ongecha, FA | |
dc.contributor.author | Kokonya, DA | |
dc.contributor.author | Omar, A | |
dc.contributor.author | Gakinya, B | |
dc.contributor.author | Mwangi, J | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-04-29T08:44:52Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-04-29T08:44:52Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2006-05 | |
dc.identifier.citation | East Afr Med J. 2006 May;83(5):280-7 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16866223 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/17517 | |
dc.description.abstract | Objectives: To profile and quantify the psychometric properties of the NOK (Ndetei-Othieno-Kathuku) scale against internationally used Gold-standards and benchmarks for mild psychiatric disorders and post-traumatic stress disorders and to provide a potential easy to administer culture sensitive instrument for screening and assessing those with possible psychiatric disorders for the Kenyan and similar social-cultural situations. Design: Cross-Sectional quantitative study.
Setting: A psychiatric clinical consultation setting and Kyanguli Secondary School psychotrauma counselling clinical set-up.
Subjects: Survivors of the Nairobi USA Embassy bombing who were referred for psychiatric treatment and survivors of a fire disaster from a rural Kenyan school (Kyanguli School fire disaster) including students, parents of the diseased children and staff members.
Results: Positive correlation was found between the NOK and all the instruments. The highest correlations were between the NOK and the BDI and SCL-90 (r = 0.557 to 0.786). The differences between the NOK scores among the different groups were statistically significant (F ratio = 13.54 to 160.34, p < 0.01). The reliability coefficient (internal consistency) of the scale, alpha = 0.9733. Other item statistics and correlations of the scale are discussed.
Conclusion: It is concluded that the NOK has high concurrent and discriminant validity as well as a high internal consistency and that it can be used for the rapid assessment of psychotrauma victims of all age groups; and stress in general in similar age groups in the local setting. It is culture appropriate and sensitive | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.title | Psychometric properties of an African symptoms check list scale: the Ndetei-Othieno-Kathuku scale | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
local.publisher | Department of Psychiatry, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya; | en |