Publication: Validation of the refugee health screener-15 for the assessment of perinatal depression among karen and Burmese women on the Thai-myanmar border
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2018-05-01
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19326203
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Mahidol University
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PLoS ONE. Vol.13, No.5 (2018)
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Gracia Fellmeth, Emma Plugge, Mina Fazel, Prakaykaew Charunwattana, François Nosten, Raymond Fitzpatrick, Julie A. Simpson, Rose McGready Validation of the refugee health screener-15 for the assessment of perinatal depression among karen and Burmese women on the Thai-myanmar border. PLoS ONE. Vol.13, No.5 (2018). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0197403 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/44770
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Validation of the refugee health screener-15 for the assessment of perinatal depression among karen and Burmese women on the Thai-myanmar border
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© 2018 Fellmeth et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Perinatal depression is common, and left untreated can have significant and long-lasting consequences for women, their children and their families. Migrant women are at particular risk of perinatal depression as a result of a multitude of stressors experienced before, during and after migration. Identification of perinatal depression among migrant women—particularly those living in low- and middle-income regions—remains challenging, partly due to the lack of locally-validated and culturally appropriate screens tools. This study formally validates Burmese and Sgaw Karen versions of the Refugee Health Screener-15 (RHS-15) as a screening tool for perinatal depression among migrant women living on the Thai-Myanmar border. The Structured Clinical Interview for the Diagnosis of DSM-IV Disorders (SCID) was used as the gold-standard comparator. Complete results were obtained for 235 Burmese-speaking and 275 Sgaw Karen-speaking women. Despite displaying reasonable psychometric properties, a number of shortcomings associated with the RHS-15 limited its utility in this setting. The Likert-type response categories of the RHS-15 proved problematic in this low-literacy population. Combined with the relative superiority and greater ease of administration of the SCID, the RHS-15 is not recommended as the tool of choice for detecting perinatal depression in this setting.