IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/socpsy/v55y2009i6p538-547.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Psychometric Properties of the Chinese Version of the Self-Reporting Questionnaire 20 (SRQ-20) in Community Settings

Author

Listed:
  • Shulin Chen

    (Department of Medical Psychology, Seventh Hospital of Hangzhou, Zhejiang, PR China, shulinchen1990@gmail.com, University of Rochester, Centre of Suicide Prevention and Study, New York, US, Department of Psychiatry, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong)

  • Guoqiu Zhao

    (Seventh Hospital of Hangzhou, Zhejiang, PR China)

  • Lingjiang Li

    (Mental Health Institute of the Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha Hunan, PR China)

  • Yiqiang Wang
  • Helen Chiu

    (Department of Psychiatry, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong)

  • Eric Caine

    (University of Rochester, Centre of Suicide Prevention and Study and Department of Psychiatry, New York,USA)

Abstract

Background: Community mental health services in China are in need of a brief, valid instrument to identify mental disorders. Many studies support the Self-Reporting Questionnaire 20 (SRQ-20) as a cost-effective instrument with which to measure community mental health, but there have been no previous studies conducted with the Chinese version of SRQ-20. In this paper, the psychometric properties of the Chinese version of SRQ-20 in community settings were investigated. Method: SRQ-20 was used to evaluate 959 participants from 10 communities of Hangzhou City and 60 participants from two community primary care centres for the presence of mental disorders. Discriminative, concurrent, and construct validity as well as internal consistency and screening properties of SRQ-20 were evaluated. Results: Cronbach’s α for SRQ-20 was 0.90 for primary care and 0.91 for the community. Item-total correlation coefficients ranged from 0.40 to 0.73 in primary care, and from 0.51 to 0.69 in the community. The test-retest correlation coefficient was 0.93 in primary care and 0.94 in the community. Varimax-rotated principal component analysis of the SRQ-20 items yielded three factors: depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms and somatic symptoms. The area under the ROC curve was 0.83 ( SE =0.04, 95% CI 0.75—0.90) for the community and primary care samples. The optimal cut-off point for SRQ-20 was 6/7 yielding sensitivity of 93% and specificity of 62%. Conclusion: SRQ-20 appears to be a reliable and valid measure of mental disorders in the community in China.

Suggested Citation

  • Shulin Chen & Guoqiu Zhao & Lingjiang Li & Yiqiang Wang & Helen Chiu & Eric Caine, 2009. "Psychometric Properties of the Chinese Version of the Self-Reporting Questionnaire 20 (SRQ-20) in Community Settings," International Journal of Social Psychiatry, , vol. 55(6), pages 538-547, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socpsy:v:55:y:2009:i:6:p:538-547
    DOI: 10.1177/0020764008095116
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0020764008095116
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1177/0020764008095116?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Kim Bao Giang & Peter Allebeck & Gunnar Kullgren & Nguyen van Tuan, 2006. "The Vietnamese Version of the Self Reporting Questionnaire 20 (SRQ-20) in Detecting Mental Disorders in Rural Vietnam: A Validation Study," International Journal of Social Psychiatry, , vol. 52(2), pages 175-184, March.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Dong-Dong Shi & Ying-Dan Zhang & Sen Zhang & Bing-Bing Liao & Min-Yi Chu & Shanshan Su & Kaiming Zhuo & Hao Hu & Chen Zhang & Zhen Wang, 2023. "Stress-induced red nucleus attenuation induces anxiety-like behavior and lymph node CCL5 secretion," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 14(1), pages 1-17, December.
    2. Huijuan Chen & Libing Sun & Zhe Du & Liting Zhao & Ling Wang, 2020. "A cross‐sectional study of mental health status and self‐psychological adjustment in nurses who supported Wuhan for fighting against the COVID‐19," Journal of Clinical Nursing, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 29(21-22), pages 4161-4170, November.
    3. Hanandita, Wulung & Tampubolon, Gindo, 2014. "Does poverty reduce mental health? An instrumental variable analysis," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 113(C), pages 59-67.
    4. Onur Altindag & Bilge Erten & Pinar Keskin, 2022. "Mental Health Costs of Lockdowns: Evidence from Age-Specific Curfews in Turkey," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association, vol. 14(2), pages 320-343, April.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Onur Altindag & Bilge Erten & Pinar Keskin, 2022. "Mental Health Costs of Lockdowns: Evidence from Age-Specific Curfews in Turkey," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association, vol. 14(2), pages 320-343, April.
    2. Dinh Thai Son & Junko Yasuoka & Krishna C. Poudel & Keiko Otsuka & Masamine Jimba, 2013. "Massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG): Association between its addiction, self-control and mental disorders among young people in Vietnam," International Journal of Social Psychiatry, , vol. 59(6), pages 570-577, September.
    3. Kathleen Ford & Aree Jampaklay & Aphichat Chamratrithirong, 2018. "Coming of age in a conflict area: Mental health, education, employment, migration and family formation in the southernmost provinces of Thailand," International Journal of Social Psychiatry, , vol. 64(3), pages 225-234, May.
    4. Kathleen Ford & Aree Jampaklay & Aphichat Chamratrithirong, 2017. "Mental health in a conflict area: Migration, economic stress and religiosity in the three southernmost provinces of Thailand," International Journal of Social Psychiatry, , vol. 63(2), pages 91-98, March.
    5. Mulusew G Jebena & David Lindstrom & Tefera Belachew & Craig Hadley & Carl Lachat & Roos Verstraeten & Nathalie De Cock & Patrick Kolsteren, 2016. "Food Insecurity and Common Mental Disorders among Ethiopian Youth: Structural Equation Modeling," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 11(11), pages 1-20, November.
    6. Lisa K. Richardson & Ananda B. Amstadter & Dean G. Kilpatrick & Mario T. Gaboury & Trinh Luong Tran & Lam Tu Trung & Nguyen Thanh Tam & Tran Tuan & La Thi Buoi & Tran Thu Ha & Tran Duc Thach & Ron Aci, 2010. "Estimating Mental Distress in Vietnam: the Use of the SRQ-20," International Journal of Social Psychiatry, , vol. 56(2), pages 133-142, March.
    7. Hanandita, Wulung & Tampubolon, Gindo, 2014. "Does poverty reduce mental health? An instrumental variable analysis," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 113(C), pages 59-67.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:socpsy:v:55:y:2009:i:6:p:538-547. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.