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KMID : 1143820150110010054
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Anxiety and Mood
2015 Volume.11 No. 1 p.54 ~ p.60
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Reliability and Validity of the North Korean Version of Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D-NK)
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Park Sung-Jin
Lee So-Hee
Jun Jin-Yong
Lee Tae-Yeop
Han Jeong-Mee
Ahn Myung-Hee
Hong Jin-Pyo
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Abstract
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Objective : To translate Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) into North Korean language and to examine its reliability and validity
Methods : North Korean defectors (n=207) recruited from the call center for North Korean defectors participated. Psychiatrists and psychiatric residents interviewed the participants and made the psychiatric diagnoses. Subsequently, the participants completed the CES-D, Impact of Event-Scale-Revised-North Korea (IES-R-NK), Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test-North Korea (AUDIT-NK), and Brief Psychological State Inventory for North Korean Refugees (BPSI-NKR) questionnaires. Of the original participants, 143 subjects participated in test-retest reliability study after one week.
Results : Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of CES-D-NK was superior in both males (0.91) and females (0.93). The test-retest correlation coefficient was high (males, 0.64 ; femals, 0.79). Good convergent validity was evident by significant correlations with IER-R-NK, BPSI-NKR-Depression and BPSI-NKR-PTSD, respectively. CES-D-NK had no or weak correlations with AUDIT-NK and BPSI-NKR-Alcohol, showing its discriminant validity.
Conclusion : CES-D-NK could be a reliable and valid tool for screening and assessing depressive symptoms of North Korean defectors.
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KEYWORD
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CES-D, North Korean defectors, Reliability, Validity
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