Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt; The Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
College of Public Health and Health Informatics, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Asian J Psychiatr. 2017 Dec;30:56-58. doi: 10.1016/j.ajp.2017.07.018. Epub 2017 Jul 18.
This study aimed to examine the validity of the Arabic version of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale-21 (DASS-21) in 149 illicit drug users.
We calculated α coefficient, inter-item and item-total correlations, coefficients of reproducibility and scalability (CR and CS), item difficulty and discrimination indices.
The DASS-21 had an acceptable reliability; but values of the CR and the CS were less than acceptable. Items varied in difficulty and discrimination; some items are candidates for elimination.
The DASS-21 is a probabilistic and not a deterministic measure of distress; it has problematic items and needs further investigations.
本研究旨在检验 149 名非法药物使用者的抑郁焦虑压力量表-21(DASS-21)阿拉伯语版本的有效性。
我们计算了 α 系数、项目间和项目总分相关性、可重复性和可扩展性系数(CR 和 CS)、项目难度和鉴别指数。
DASS-21 具有可接受的可靠性;但 CR 和 CS 的值低于可接受水平。项目的难度和鉴别力各不相同;一些项目是淘汰的候选者。
DASS-21 是一种概率性而非确定性的痛苦衡量标准;它有问题的项目,需要进一步研究。