The validity of the mental health literacy assessment questionnaire on anxiety disorders and depression among students in Hanoi, Viet Nam

Objective: The study aimed at assessing the content validity and structure validity of the mental health literacy of anxiety disorders and depression questionnaire for undergraduate students.

Methodology: Implemented on December, 2018, the study involved students from the two Faculties of Sociology, University of Social Sciences and Humanity and Academy of Jounalism and Communication, Ha Noi. The depression vignette instrument was adapted from Jorm et.al., translated to Vietnamese and back translated to English. Content and structure validity were done through 02 focus group discussions with 20 respondents (10 from each university) and 02 indepth interviews were carried out with 2 mental health experts.

Results: The depression vignette was revised shorter and exactly described depressive symptoms. The anxiety disorder one was newly developed. Some answering items were added. Along with that, some inappropriate answering items were also deleted, and 5 choices of the question were adjusted to 4 choices as well.

Conclusion and recommendation: The instrument included 43 questions, among which were 32 questions on the mental health literacy of anxiety disorder and depression was confirmed the validity and could be used in the future studies on undergraduate students.

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