Developing an appropriate depression and anxiety screening tool for use with Australian First Nations peoples living in the Torres Strait and Northern Peninsula Area of Australia: Protocol for a Delphi study
Meldrum, Kathryn, Wallace, Val, Webb, Torres, Ridgway, Lynne, Quigley, Rachel, Strivens, Edward, and Russell, Sarah (2023) Developing an appropriate depression and anxiety screening tool for use with Australian First Nations peoples living in the Torres Strait and Northern Peninsula Area of Australia: Protocol for a Delphi study. PLoS ONE, 18 (12). e0292162.
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Abstract
Tools that screen for depression and anxiety developed using the Western biomedical paradigm are still used with First Nations peoples globally, despite calls for cross-cultural adaption. Recent work by the research team found that tools used to screen for depression and anxiety were not appropriate for use with Australian First Nations peoples living in the Torres Strait and Northern Peninsula Area (NPA). of Australia. Consequently, the objective of this Delphi study is to gain consensus from an expert mental health panel to inform the development of an appropriate depression and anxiety screening tool(s). A Delphi study with Australian expert panellists will be used to reach consensus about whether an existing screening tool should be used or whether adaption or new tool development should take place. Three sequential rounds of anonymous online surveys will be used to reach consensus. The first round will seek consensus about the tool(s). Subsequent rounds will seek consensus on the development of the tool(s) identified in round one. Panellists will be identified using a combination of authorship of related publications, established national clinical or research profile in First Nations mental health, and/or by peer referral. Consensus will be reached when 75% of the panel agree. When agreement is not reached suggestions will be taken to the next round. If agreement is not achieved by the third round, the Steering Committee will make any outstanding decisions. Dissemination of the findings through continuing community engagement, conference presentations and publications will be led by Torres Strait Islander members of the research team.
| Item ID: | 81766 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Scholarly Work) |
| ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
| Keywords: | Mental wellbeing; Indigenous peoples; First Nations peoples; Screening tool development; protocol |
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| Copyright Information: | © 2023 Meldrum et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
| Funders: | Ian Potter Foundation |
| Projects and Grants: | Grant number 31110728 |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Feb 2024 22:13 |
| FoR Codes: | 42 HEALTH SCIENCES > 4206 Public health > 420699 Public health not elsewhere classified @ 50% 42 HEALTH SCIENCES > 4206 Public health > 420606 Social determinants of health @ 50% |
| SEO Codes: | 21 INDIGENOUS > 2103 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health > 210399 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health not elsewhere classified @ 50% 20 HEALTH > 2099 Other health > 209999 Other health not elsewhere classified @ 50% |
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