Mental health services are far from satisfactory in the Eastern Mediterranean Region. The Global Mental Health Assessment Tool-Primary Care version [GMHAT/PC] is a semi-structured, computerized clinical assessment tool that was developed to assist health workers in making quick, convenient and comprehensive standardized mental health assessments. A study was carried out in the United Arab Emirates to evaluate the validity and feasibility of the Arabic version of the GMHAT/PC. Mental health nurses administered the GMHAT/PC Arabic version to 50 patients in mental health and rehabilitation settings and their GMHAT/PC diagnosis was compared with the psychiatrist's independent ICD-10 based clinical diagnosis on the same patients. The nurses found GMHAT/PC easy to administer in an average of 16 minutes. The GMHAT/PC-based diagnosis had a good agreement with the psychiatrist's diagnosis [kappa = 0.91] and a high sensitivity [97%] and specificity [94%]
Citation
Sharma, V.K., Durrani, S., Sawa, M., Copeland, J.R.M., Abou-Saleh, M.T. et al. (2013). Arabic version of the Global Mental Health Assessment Tool-Primary Care version [GMHAT/PC]: a validity and feasibility study. http://www.who.int/iris/handle/10665/118588
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EMHJ - Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, 19 (11), 905-908, 2013
