Hopkins Symptom Checklist - 25 item version (HSC)
Overview
- Purpose
- To assess mental health symptoms primarily related to anxiety and depression
- Respondent
- Person with a Disability
- Administration Methods
- Survey
- Interview
- Administration Mode
- In-person
- Developer
- Johns Hopkins University
- Item Count
- 25
- Population
- Mental Health Challenges
Instrument Citation(s)
Missouri Institute of Mental Health. Program in Consumer Studies and Training Multi-site Protocol 1.2. https://pocc.org/assets/Uploads/COSP-FUPQ-by-Q-1.2-May-23-2001.pdf 
Instrument Domains
| Domain | Number of Items |
|---|---|
| Holistic Health and Functioning | 25 |
| Individual health and functioning | 25 |
| Health promotion and prevention | 0 |
| Caregiver Support | 0 |
| Access to resources | 0 |
| Family caregiver/natural support involvement | 0 |
| Family caregiver/natural support wellbeing | 0 |
| Training and skill-building | 0 |
| Choice and Control | 0 |
| Choice of services and supports | 0 |
| Personal choices and goals | 0 |
| Personal freedoms and dignity of risk | 0 |
| Self-direction | 0 |
| Community Inclusion | 0 |
| Employment | 0 |
| Meaningful activity | 0 |
| Resources and settings to facilitate inclusion | 0 |
| Social connectedness and relationships | 0 |
| Transportation | 0 |
| Consumer Leadership in System Development | 0 |
| Evidence of meaningful caregiver involvement | 0 |
| Evidence of meaningful consumer involvement | 0 |
| System supports meaningful consumer involvement | 0 |
| Equity | 0 |
| Availability | 0 |
| Equitable access and resource allocation | 0 |
| Transparency and consistency | 0 |
| Fluctuation of Need | 0 |
| Human and Legal Rights | 0 |
| Freedom from abuse and neglect | 0 |
| Informed decision-making | 0 |
| Optimizing the preservation of legal and human rights | 0 |
| Privacy | 0 |
| Supporting individuals in exercising their human and legal rights | 0 |
| Level of Caregiver Well-Being | 0 |
| Person-Centered Planning and Coordination | 0 |
| Assessment | 0 |
| Coordination | 0 |
| Person-centered planning | 0 |
| Service Delivery and Effectiveness | 0 |
| Delivery | 0 |
| Person's needs met and goals realized | 0 |
| System Performance and Accountability | 0 |
| Data management and use | 0 |
| Evidence-based practice | 0 |
| Financing and service delivery structures | 0 |
| Workforce | 0 |
| Adequately compensated with benefits | 0 |
| Culturally competent | 0 |
| Demonstrated competencies when appropriate | 0 |
| Person-centered approach to services | 0 |
| Safety of and respect for the worker | 0 |
| Staff Turnover | 0 |
| Sufficient workforce numbers dispersion and availability | 0 |
| Workforce engagement and participation | 0 |
Psychometric Citations
Derogatis, L.R., Lipmann, R.S., & Rickels, K. (1974). The Hopkins symptoms checklist (HSCL): A self-report
inventory. Behavioral Science, 19, 1-15.- Type of Publication
- Peer review
- Instrument Language
- English
- Sample: Age (Mean and Range)
Not Reported
- Sample: Age Group
Not Reported
- Sample: Countries/State
United States
- Sample: Disability Type
Mental Health Challenges
- Sample: Gender (%male)
Anxious sample = 28%;
Depressed sample =0%;
Oakland sample = 49%- Sample: Race/Ethnicity (%)
Anxious sample = 58% white;
Depressed sample =93% white;
Oakland sample = 54% white- Sample: Sampling Strategy
Not Reported/Unknown
- Sample: Size
Anxious sample= 1435;
Depressed sample =367;
Oakland sample = 735- Reliability: Inter-rater
somatization = .73; obsessive-compulsive = .77; interpersonal sensitivity = .80; depression = .64; anxiety = .67
- Reliability: Internal Consistency
Coefficient Alpha: somatization = .87; obsessive-compulsive = .87; interpersonal sensitivity = .85; depression = .86; anxiety = .84
- Reliability: Test-retest
somatization = .82; obsessive-compulsive = .84; interpersonal sensitivity = .80; depression = .81; anxiety = .75
- Study design
- Cross-sectional
Lhewa, D., Banu, S., Rosenfeld, B., & Keller, A. (2007). Validation of a Tibetan Translation of the Hopkins
Symptom Checklist-25 and the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire. Assessment, 14(3), 223-230.- Type of Publication
- Peer review
- Instrument Language
- Tibetan
- Sample: Age (Mean and Range)
Mean=34 years
- Sample: Age Group
18-64 Years
- Sample: Countries/State
United States, New York
- Sample: Disability Type
Mental Health Challenges
- Sample: Gender (%male)
79%
- Sample: Race/Ethnicity (%)
Not Reported
- Sample: Sampling Strategy
Purposive
- Sample: Size
57
- Reliability: Internal Consistency
Anxiety = .89; Depression = .92
- Validity: Criterion Validity (Concurrent and Predictive)
Receiver operating characteristic curve analysis: AUC = .89 for the Anxiety subscale and .92 for the Depression subscale;
The sensitivity and specificity for the Anxiety subscale were .91 and .88; .89 and .87 for the depression subscales
- Study design
- Cross-sectional