Do Norwegian Sami and non-indigenous individuals understand questions about mental health similarly? A SAMINOR 2 study
The Western culturally developed Hopkins Symptom Checklist (HSCL-10) is a self-report measure of mental distress widely used for both clinical and epidemiological purposes – also in the multiethnic epidemiological SAMINOR studies in Northern Norway, but without any proper cross-cultural validation....
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:d5e81bf32ebf47a6976d10c0d8c4c4d6 2023-05-15T15:09:36+02:00 Do Norwegian Sami and non-indigenous individuals understand questions about mental health similarly? A SAMINOR 2 study Tore Sørlie Ketil Lenert Hansen Oddgeir Friborg 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2018.1481325 https://doaj.org/article/d5e81bf32ebf47a6976d10c0d8c4c4d6 EN eng Taylor & Francis Group http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2018.1481325 https://doaj.org/toc/2242-3982 2242-3982 doi:10.1080/22423982.2018.1481325 https://doaj.org/article/d5e81bf32ebf47a6976d10c0d8c4c4d6 International Journal of Circumpolar Health, Vol 77, Iss 1 (2018) Cross-cultural validation Hopkins Symptom Checklist (HSCL-10) invariance analyses Norway patient-reported outcome measures (PROs) SAMINOR 2 questionnaire study Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine RC955-962 article 2018 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2018.1481325 2022-12-31T00:29:59Z The Western culturally developed Hopkins Symptom Checklist (HSCL-10) is a self-report measure of mental distress widely used for both clinical and epidemiological purposes – also in the multiethnic epidemiological SAMINOR studies in Northern Norway, but without any proper cross-cultural validation. Our objective was to test invariance of the HSCL-10 measurements among Sami and the non-indigenous majority population in Northern Norway (participants in the SAMINOR 2 study) and whether the previously used HSCL-10 cut-off level (1.85) fits the Sami subgroups in the study. Participants belonged to Sami core, Sami affiliation, Sami background or majority Norwegian groups. The confirmatory factor analysis framework adapted for testing of measurement invariance showed no significant measurement invariance between the groups indicating that the HSCL-10 response scale predominantly was used in the same way and that significantly different meanings were not ascribed to the same set of questions. The cut-off criteria of 1.85 as indicative of psychological distress based on Norwegian data equal a score of 1.89, 1.94 and 1.91 in the Sami core, Sami affiliation and Sami background groups, respectively. Thus, the same cut-off criterion 1.85 may be safely used in all groups. However, one should still be looking for culture-specific expressions of mental stress. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Circumpolar Health International Journal of Circumpolar Health Northern Norway sami sami Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Norway International Journal of Circumpolar Health 77 1 1481325 |
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The Western culturally developed Hopkins Symptom Checklist (HSCL-10) is a self-report measure of mental distress widely used for both clinical and epidemiological purposes – also in the multiethnic epidemiological SAMINOR studies in Northern Norway, but without any proper cross-cultural validation. Our objective was to test invariance of the HSCL-10 measurements among Sami and the non-indigenous majority population in Northern Norway (participants in the SAMINOR 2 study) and whether the previously used HSCL-10 cut-off level (1.85) fits the Sami subgroups in the study. Participants belonged to Sami core, Sami affiliation, Sami background or majority Norwegian groups. The confirmatory factor analysis framework adapted for testing of measurement invariance showed no significant measurement invariance between the groups indicating that the HSCL-10 response scale predominantly was used in the same way and that significantly different meanings were not ascribed to the same set of questions. The cut-off criteria of 1.85 as indicative of psychological distress based on Norwegian data equal a score of 1.89, 1.94 and 1.91 in the Sami core, Sami affiliation and Sami background groups, respectively. Thus, the same cut-off criterion 1.85 may be safely used in all groups. However, one should still be looking for culture-specific expressions of mental stress. |
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Do Norwegian Sami and non-indigenous individuals understand questions about mental health similarly? A SAMINOR 2 study |
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Do Norwegian Sami and non-indigenous individuals understand questions about mental health similarly? A SAMINOR 2 study |
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Do Norwegian Sami and non-indigenous individuals understand questions about mental health similarly? A SAMINOR 2 study |
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Do Norwegian Sami and non-indigenous individuals understand questions about mental health similarly? A SAMINOR 2 study |
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Do Norwegian Sami and non-indigenous individuals understand questions about mental health similarly? A SAMINOR 2 study |
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do norwegian sami and non-indigenous individuals understand questions about mental health similarly? a saminor 2 study |
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