ArticleInternational journal of circumpolar health2018
Do Norwegian Sami and non-indigenous individuals understand questions about mental health similarly? A SAMINOR 2 study.
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- Approaches to the development of new screening tools that assess distress in Indigenous peoples: A systematic mixed studies review.PloS one · 2023Pooled it
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- Intimate partner violence and its association with mental health problems: The importance of childhood violence - The SAMINOR 2 Questionnaire Survey.Scandinavian journal of public health · 2022Article
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- Religion and Health in Arctic Norway - the association of religious and spiritual factors with suicidal behaviour in a mixed Sámi and Norwegian adult population - The SAMINOR 2 Questionnaire Survey.International journal of circumpolar health · 2021Article
- Persistent pain associated with socioeconomic and personal factors in a Sami and Non-Sami population in Norway: an analysis of SAMINOR 2 survey data.International journal of circumpolar health · 2020Article
- Clinicians' assumptions about Sami culture and experience providing mental health services to Indigenous patients in Norway.Transcultural psychiatry · 2020Article
- The prevalence of mental distress and the association with education: a cross-sectional study of 18-49-year-old citizens of Yangon Region, Myanmar.BMC public health · 2020Article
- Estimated 8-year cumulative incidence of diabetes mellitus among Sami and non-Sami inhabitants of Northern Norway - The SAMINOR Study.BMC endocrine disorders · 2019Article
- Childhood violence and mental health among indigenous Sami and non-Sami populations in Norway: a SAMINOR 2 questionnaire study.International journal of circumpolar health · 2018Article
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Abstract
The Western culturally developed Hopkins Symptom Checklist (HSCL-10) is a self-report measure of mental distress widely used for both clinical and epidemiological purposes - also in the multiethnic epidemiological SAMINOR studies in Northern Norway, but without any proper cross-cultural validation. Our objective was to test invariance of the HSCL-10 measurements among Sami and the non-indigenous majority population in Northern Norway (participants in the SAMINOR 2 study) and whether the previously used HSCL-10 cut-off level (1.85) fits the Sami subgroups in the study. Participants belonged to Sami core, Sami affiliation, Sami background or majority Norwegian groups. The confirmatory factor analysis framework adapted for testing of measurement invariance showed no significant measurement invariance between the groups indicating that the HSCL-10 response scale predominantly was used in the same way and that significantly different meanings were not ascribed to the same set of questions. The cut-off criteria of 1.85 as indicative of psychological distress based on Norwegian data equal a score of 1.89, 1.94 and 1.91 in the Sami core, Sami affiliation and Sami background groups, respectively. Thus, the same cut-off criterion 1.85 may be safely used in all groups. However, one should still be looking for culture-specific expressions of mental stress.
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