Table 1.

A-priori criteria for determining the choice of depression screening instruments for adaptation in Aboriginal communities in Central Australia

1	Likely face validity within the target population
2	Minimal or no culturally inappropriate questions
3	The existence of response categories that were linguistically and conceptually adaptable across languages
4	Brevity
5	Could be self-completed, as well as facilitated by an interviewer with little or no training
6	Had been used in cross-cultural studies previously
7	Possessed robust psychometric properties
8	Had been used in both psychiatric and community samples
9	Had been used in patients with medical co-morbidity
10	That there was concurrence/coherence with the primary findings from the qualitative fieldwork.