TY - JOUR
T1 - A tool for sexual minority mental health research
T2 - The Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) as a depressive symptom severity measure for sexual minority women in Viet Nam
AU - Nguyen, Trang Quynh
AU - Bandeen-Roche, Karen
AU - Bass, Judith K.
AU - German, Danielle
AU - Nguyen, Nam Thi Thu
AU - Knowlton, Amy R.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2016/4/2
Y1 - 2016/4/2
N2 - ABSTRACT: In a context with limited attention to mental health and prevalent sexual prejudice, valid measurements are a key first step to understanding the psychological suffering of sexual minority populations. We adapted the Patient Health Questionnaire as a depressive symptom severity measure for Vietnamese sexual minority women, ensuring its cultural relevance and suitability for Internet-based research. Psychometric evaluation found that the scale is mostly unidimensional and has good convergent validity, good external construct validity, and excellent reliability. The sample's high endorsement of scale items emphasizes the need to study minority stress and mental health in this population.
AB - ABSTRACT: In a context with limited attention to mental health and prevalent sexual prejudice, valid measurements are a key first step to understanding the psychological suffering of sexual minority populations. We adapted the Patient Health Questionnaire as a depressive symptom severity measure for Vietnamese sexual minority women, ensuring its cultural relevance and suitability for Internet-based research. Psychometric evaluation found that the scale is mostly unidimensional and has good convergent validity, good external construct validity, and excellent reliability. The sample's high endorsement of scale items emphasizes the need to study minority stress and mental health in this population.
KW - Depression
KW - Viet Nam
KW - lesbian: scale adaptation
KW - sexual minority women
KW - validation
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U2 - 10.1080/19359705.2015.1080204
DO - 10.1080/19359705.2015.1080204
M3 - Article
C2 - 27642381
AN - SCOPUS:84961201491
SN - 1935-9705
VL - 20
SP - 173
EP - 191
JO - Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health
JF - Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health
IS - 2
ER -