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Values of cross-cultural research: insights gained from the validation of the ‘Depression Screening Measure DMI-10 Chinese version’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 June 2014

B Chan  and
G Parker
B Chan
Affiliation:
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales The Black Dog Institute, Sydney, Australia
G Parker
Affiliation:
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales The Black Dog Institute, Sydney, Australia
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Type
Abstracts from ‘Brainwaves’— The Australasian Society for Psychiatric Research Annual Meeting 2006, 6–8 December, Sydney, Australia
Information
Acta Neuropsychiatrica , Volume 18 , Issue 6 , December 2006 , pp. 280
Copyright
Copyright © 2006 Blackwell Munksgaard

Background:

Depression measurement tools in cross-cultural research require careful design and thorough validation to ensure that cognitive concepts in one culture can be appropriately translated and applied to a differing culture. The aim of this paper was to report the validation of the Chinese version of a screening measure of state depression, the DMI-10.

Method:

Three interdependent studies were conducted: 1) an initial bilingual test-retest study identified four (of the ten) items as having poor cross-cultural validity, 2) a second study involved focus group participants exploring the meaning of translated items with Chinese speakers and 3) the third study repeated the bilingual test-retest analyses on the modified DMI-10.

Results:

Study 3 showed improved correlation coefficients on all items and an excellent overall correlation (r = 0.87) between the Chinese and English versions.

Conclusions:

The findings have significant implications for cross-cultural research. Subsequently, our research team undertook a study to validate the Chinese DMI-10 against the Chinese versions of the BDI-II and the CIDI. The DMI-10 should prove useful in identifying Chinese people at risk of clinical depression.