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. 2006 Mar 24;14(4):212–220. doi: 10.1002/mpr.9

Reliability and validity of the Youth Self‐Report, Bangladesh version

Takashi Izutsu 1,✉, Atsuro Tsutsumi 2, Akramul Islam 3, AH Mohammad Firoz 4, Susumu Wakai 2, Hiroshi Kurita 5
PMCID: PMC6878521  PMID: 16395874

Abstract

The objectives of this study were to develop the Bangladesh version of the Youth Self‐Report (YSR), and assess its reliability and validity in an adolescent population in Dhaka city, Bangladesh. One‐hundred‐and‐eighty‐seven boys (mean age: 14.6 years, SD: 2.1) and 137 girls (mean age: 15.2 years, SD: 2.0) from residential areas, and 27 boys (mean age: 17.0, SD: 1.4) and 14 girls (mean age: 15.4, SD: 2.8) from a psychiatric hospital, all within the range of 11–18 years, were interviewed using a questionnaire that consisted of the Bangla translation of the YSR and other questions. Thirty‐eight randomly selected adolescents were administered the same questionnaire one week after the first administration. All the core scores and most of the subscales showed high internal consistency other than small item‐number subscales, and satisfactory test‐ retest reliability. Good discriminant validity was shown for most of the scale scores. This study showed that the Bangla translation of the YSR had sufficient reliability and validity for use in Bangladesh. The cutoff scores of the scales were higher for the Bangla version than for the original English version, and further studies exploring this point would be an asset. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Keywords: adolescent, Bangladesh, mental health, slum, urbanization

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