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A new diagnostic approach for Turkish speaking populations DAWBA Turkish Version

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2012

O. B. Dursun*
Affiliation:
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ataturk, Erzurum, Turkey
T. Guvenir
Affiliation:
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Dokuz Eylul, Izmir, Turkey
S. Aras
Affiliation:
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Dokuz Eylul, Izmir, Turkey
C. Ergin
Affiliation:
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Dokuz Eylul, Izmir, Turkey
C. Mutlu
Affiliation:
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Bakirkoy Mental Health and Neurology Research Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey
H. Baydur
Affiliation:
School of Health, Celal Bayar University, Manisa, Turkey
A. Ozbek
Affiliation:
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Dokuz Eylul, Izmir, Turkey
H. Ozek
Affiliation:
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Dokuz Eylul, Izmir, Turkey
S. Alsen
Affiliation:
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Dokuz Eylul, Izmir, Turkey
L. Iscanli
Affiliation:
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Dokuz Eylul, Izmir, Turkey
B. I. Karaman
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Letters, Izmir, Turkey
R. Goodman
Affiliation:
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, King's College London Institute of Psychiatry, UK
*
*Address for Correspondence: Onur Burak Dursun, M.D. Assistant Professor, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ataturk, 25240 Erzurum, Turkey. (Email: onurburak007@yahoo.com)

Abstract

Aims.

Turkey has the youngest population in Europe with about 25 million people aged below 19 years and Turkish-speaking people comprise the biggest migrant group in Europe with 2.5 million people dispersed in different countries, but conducting epidemiologic surveys on Turkish people is challenging due to the lack of a suitable diagnostic tool. The Development and Well-Being Assessment (DAWBA) is one of the most widely used diagnostic interviews in child and adolescent psychiatry. In this study, we aimed at translating the DAWBA into Turkish and then examined its validity and reliability.

Methods.

The validity of the Turkish version was examined in clinical (n = 50) and community (n = 104) samples. The interrater reliability was also evaluated on 20 cases.

Results.

The translation method used in the study achieved semantic, conceptual, content, technical, item and criterion equivalence between the Turkish and original forms. The validity of the Turkish DAWBA was good or excellent for different diagnostic categories (κ: 0.43–0.84); the interrater reliability was also excellent (κ: 0.85–1).

Conclusions.

The Turkish DAWBA may be useful for future prevalence studies in Turkey. European clinicians and researchers who work with Turkish-speaking families can use the online Turkish DAWBA to gather structured information from Turkish-speaking informants and review the answers in their own language.

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