Short screening scales to monitor population prevalences and trends in non-specific psychological distress

By Ronald C. Kessler, G. Andrews, L. Colpe, È. Hiripi, D. Mroczek, Sharon-Lise T. Normand, E. Walters, Alan M. Zaslavsky. Psychological Medicine, 2002

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental health, Social Psychology

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Stress, Marital Satisfaction, and Psychological Distress Among African Americans (2010, methodology): “Levels of psychological distress were measured using the K6, a six-item scale designed to assess nonspecific psychological distress, including symptoms of depression and anxiety in the past 30 days (Kessler et al., 2002; Kessler et al., 2003).”
Preliminary psychometric validation of a brief screening tool for athlete mental health among male elite athletes: the Athlete Psychological Strain Questionnaire (2019, methodology): “are noteworthy given that APSQ items tap into domains specific to athletes that are distinct from those assessed by the K-10, and that the K-10 is a well-regarded scale widely used in major population health studies (Kessler et al., 2002; Slade et al., 2011).”
Understanding and Improving Classroom Emotional Climate and Behavior Management in the “Real World”: The Role of Head Start Teachers' Psychosocial Stressors (2010, methodology): “Psychological well-being was measured using teachers’ self-reports of depressive symptoms based on the K6 (Kessler et al., 2002).”
Spiritual Struggles and Psychological Distress: Is There a Dark Side of Religion? (2010, methodology): “4 Measures 4.1 Dependent Variable Psychological distress is measured with an index developed for this purpose by Kessler et al. (2002).”
An RCT Comparing Effect of Two Types of Support on Severity of Symptoms for People Completing Internet-Based Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Social Phobia (2009, methodology): “Applicants completed the Social Interaction Anxiety Scale (SIAS) [24]; the Social Phobia Scale (SPS) [24]; the Patient Health Questionnaire 9 (PHQ-9) [25], the Kessler 10 (K-10) [26]; and the Sheehan Disability Scales (SDS) [27].”
Reliability and validity of K10 and K6 in screening depressive symptoms in Hong Kong adolescents (2014, background): “Since the two versions of Kessler Psychological Distress Scale – Kessler 10 (K10) and Kessler 6 (K6) (Kessler et al., 2002) – do not include the same items as the BDI, they are good candidates as screening tools with Chinese samples.”
On the psychological and motivational processes linking job characteristics to employee functioning: Insights from self-determination theory (2015, methodology): “The Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10; Kessler et al., 2002) was used to assess psychological distress.”
‘What about the couple?’ Interracial marriage and psychological distress ☆ (2006, background): “Since 1997, the NHIS survey has included a screening instrument for non-specific psychological distress (Kessler et al., 2002).”
The performance of the K6 and K10 screening scales for psychological distress in the Australian National Survey of Mental Health and Well-Being (2003, methodology): “…of the population distribution as well as to guarantee that each item in the scales had consistent severity across sociodemographic subsamples (Kessler et al. 2002) whereas the GHQ was originally designed for use in primary care settings where about a quarter of the population were estimated…”
The performance of the Japanese version of the K6 and K10 in the World Mental Health Survey Japan (2008, methodology): “Kessler and his colleagues (Kessler et al., 2002) developed 10-item and 6-item very short screening instruments using modern item response theory methods to select questions that are maximally discriminative of respondents in the 90th to 99th percentile range of the population distribution, because…”
Moving to Opportunity and Tranquility: Neighborhood Effects on Adult Economic Self-Sufficiency and Health From a Randomized Housing Voucher Experiment (2004, neutral): “See Kessler et al. (2003) for details.”
Attachment to God, Stressful Life Events, and Changes in Psychological Distress (2012, background): “This is the K6 scale of psychological distress developed by Kessler et al. (2002), and it distinguishes negative affect based on the type and amount of severity of the problem rather than diagnosis.”
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).”