Ananda B Amstadter, Lisa Richardson, Ron Acierno, Dean G Kilpatrick, Mario T Gaboury, Trinh Luong Tran, Lam Tu Trung, Nguyen Thanh Tam, Tran Tuan, La Thi Buoi, Tran Thu Ha, Tran Duc Thach
{"title":"Does Interviewer Status Matter? An examination of Lay Interviewers and Medical Doctor Interviewers in an Epidemiological Study in Vietnam.","authors":"Ananda B Amstadter, Lisa Richardson, Ron Acierno, Dean G Kilpatrick, Mario T Gaboury, Trinh Luong Tran, Lam Tu Trung, Nguyen Thanh Tam, Tran Tuan, La Thi Buoi, Tran Thu Ha, Tran Duc Thach","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In 2006, typhoon Xangsane disrupted a large-scale multi-agency mental health study of 4,982 individuals in the DaNang province of Vietnam. Following this disaster, 795 of the original 4,982 participants were randomly assigned to be re-interviewed by either a medical doctor or a lay interviewer using structured clinical interviews to determine prevalence of lifetime and post-typhoon post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), major depressive disorder (MDD), panic disorder (PD), and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition (APA, 1994). The aim of the present study was to determine if prevalence of disorders differed by interviewer type. Bivariate analyses and multivariable analyses, as well as internal reliability estimates, all indicated no significant differences between the medical doctor interviewers versus the lay interviewers. This held for both lifetime prevalence as well as post-typhoon prevalence of disorders. This study has implications for epidemiologic studies, as it indicates that with adequate training, the use of lay interviewers may be a valid means of data collection.</p>","PeriodicalId":88908,"journal":{"name":"International perspectives in victimology","volume":"5 1","pages":"55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3966528/pdf/nihms129664.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32220536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ron Acierno, Ananda B Amstadter, Daniel F Gros, Lisa Richardson, Dean G Kilpatrick, Lam Tu Trung, Tran Tuan, La Thi Buoi, Tran Thu Ha, Tran Duc Thach, Mario T Gaboury, Trinh Luong Tran, Nguyen Thanh Tam, Anne Seymour, Sandro Galea
{"title":"A Pre-/Post-Disaster Epidemiological Study of Mental Health Functioning in Vietnam's Da Nang Province Following Typhoon Xangsane.","authors":"Ron Acierno, Ananda B Amstadter, Daniel F Gros, Lisa Richardson, Dean G Kilpatrick, Lam Tu Trung, Tran Tuan, La Thi Buoi, Tran Thu Ha, Tran Duc Thach, Mario T Gaboury, Trinh Luong Tran, Nguyen Thanh Tam, Anne Seymour, Sandro Galea","doi":"10.1002/jts.20404.","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jts.20404.","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In 2006, typhoon Xangsane struck Vietnam and disrupted a large-scale mental health needs analysis in the Da Nang province of Vietnam. Recruitment of new participants was halted, and the design of study was altered to that of a pre-/post-event investigation in which 798 of the original 4,982 participants were re-interviewed. This produced the first pre-post disaster epidemiological study. Specifically, risk and protective factors were evaluated with respect to probable mental health \"caseness\" on the bases of the World Health Organization Short Response Questionnaire (SRQ-20) 7/8 cutoff (i.e., scores of 8 or more). Caseness prevalence was 20.7% pre-disaster and 27.1% post-disaster. Specific risk factors associated with mental health caseness included poor health, extreme peri-disaster fear, and experienced injury. Religious affiliation appeared to be a protective factor. In contrast to US samples, gender was not predictive of outcome.</p>","PeriodicalId":88908,"journal":{"name":"International perspectives in victimology","volume":"4 1","pages":"78-85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2879586/pdf/nihms147601.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29032338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}