The validation and adaptation of Turkish version of development and well being assesment adult form

Development and Well Being Assesment (DAWBA) is a structured clinical interview scale in which questions, interviews, and assessment techniques are developed in accordance with ICD-10 and DSM-IV to establish psychiatric diagnoses. The aim of this study is to test the validity of the Turkish version of the clinical interview questionnaire in DAWBA adult form with the intention of keeping its original meaning, concept, scope, criterion, application, item and measurement equivalence. Thus, the objective of this study is to provide the clinicians with an additional instrument which can help the patients in the evaluation and diagnosis phase. In addition to the printed form, this assessment can be applied via the computer, which makes it more prominent than other clinical interview scales. Our work was carried out in 3 steps consisting of translation into Turkish, implementation and evaluation of the results. The translation phase of DAWBA to Turkish was completed in about 6 months by a team of 4 clinicians. Interviews were conducted with those who met the criteria at the outpatient clinic of psychiatry at Atatürk University Hospital and this phase lasted approximately 4 months. Sixty-two patients who met the criteria were included in the study and the consistency of their clinical diagnosis and the diagnosis made via DAWBA was assessed for the validity of the Turkish version of the scale. In conclusion, it has been shown that the diagnoses made with the Turkish version of the DAWBA adult form were consistent at a good level with the clinical diagnoses made by the clinicians. Key words: DAWBA Adult, Turkish Adaptation, Structured Interview