Interpreting scores on the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10)

By G. Andrews, Tim Slade. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2001

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Subfields: Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Sociology and Political Science

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Early Life Circumstance and Adult Mental Health (2019, methodology): “This includes a module comprising the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10), an internationally validated measure of anxiety-depression spectrum mental distress (Andrews and Slade 2001; Kessler et al. 2002).”
Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and nationwide lockdown on trust, attitudes toward government, and well-being. (2020, methodology): “…distress in this study, and has been shown to be clinically relevant: Established cut-offs for levels of mental distress on this measure can be used to indicate low, moderate, and serious mental distress (Andrews & Slade, 2001; Kessler et al., 2010; Prochaska, Sung, Max, Shi, & Ong, 2012).”
Factors associated with depression, anxiety, and PTSD symptomatology during the COVID-19 pandemic: Clinical implications for U.S. young adult mental health (2020, positive): “This cutoff score characterizes responses that tended to be “often true” and “true nearly all the time,” with those endorsing a score ≥30 considered to be at “very high risk with mental disorders” (Andrews and Slade, 2001; Kessler and Mroczek, 1992).”
Effect of web-based depression literacy and cognitive–behavioural therapy interventions on stigmatising attitudes to depression (2004, methodology): “Respondents were not eligible for inclusion in the trial if they (a) scored below 12 on the 10-item Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10; Andrews & Slade, 2001) (74.1% of the screening questionnaire respondents); (b) indicated that they did not have internet access at home or at work…”
The Psychological Well-Being and Sociocultural Adaptation of Short-Term International Students in Ireland (2010, positive): “Irish students scored significantly higher levels of distress on the K10, M = 19.8; SD = 6.42; than international students, M = 17.07; SD = 3.69; and also scored significantly higher on the BSI, M = 0.72; SD = 0.56; than the international sample, M = 0.42; SD = 0.31.”