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World Health Organization’s Violence Against Women Instrument (VAWI)
An instrument to study women’s exposure to emotional, physical, and sexual violence by an intimate partner. It is part of WHO’s Multi-Country Study on Women’s Health and Domestic Violence against Women conducted in 10 countries.
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Hurt, Insult, Threaten, And Scream (HITS) Scale
A screening tool increasingly used in clinical practice to assess intimate partner violence (IPV).
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India National Family Health Survey: Domestic Violence Module
The Domestic Violence Module in the India National Family Health survey measures women’s experience of physical, sexual, and emotional violence. It also asks about physical consequences of violence.
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DHS Domestic Violence Module: Experience of Physical and Sexual Violence by Partner or Spouse
A module included in the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), a large-scale nationally representative survey that covers many aspects of family and health for both men and women, in addition to domestic violence.
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Short Adapted Social Capital Assessment Tool (SASCAT)
Measures three aspects of structural social capital (membership of groups, involvement in citizenship activities, and social support from the community), as well as cognitive social capital (e.g., trust, social harmony, perceived fairness, and sense of belonging).
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Support in Household Chores and Perceived Instrumental Support
This scale measured two aspects of social support: support in household chores and perceived instrumental support.
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Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS)
Evaluates symptoms of depressed mood among perinatal women including feelings of anxiousness (including panic) or worry for no good reason, feelings that things have been overwhelming, difficulty sleeping, feeling sad or miserable, as well as thoughts of harming oneself.
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Family support was categorized into good (higher than the mean data) and poor (less than the mean data). Developed to reflect emotional, material, and informational support for complementary feeding.
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Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9)
Used to measure the severity of depressive symptoms and, in contexts where the scale is clinically validated, screen for possible depression. The recall period is over the last two weeks.
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Kessler Psychological Distress Scale-10 (K-10)
This is a 10-item questionnaire that yields a global measure of distress (eliciting both anxiety and depressive symptoms) that has been validated in various cultural settings.
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Self -Report Questionnaire (SRQ-20)
Self-report measure to detect non-specific psychological distress; subscales include depression/ anxiety, somatic symptoms, reduced vital energy and depressive thoughts.
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale-7 (GAD-7)
The Generalized Anxiety Disorder Screen (GAD-7) is a 7-item Likert scale that measures common symptoms of anxiety.
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Assess the social support fathers and grandmothers provide to mothers. Fathers and grandmothers were asked about support provided, and mothers were asked about support received.
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Oslo Social Support Scale
Assesses relationships with friends, family, and neighbors. Asks for the number of close confidants, the sense of concern from other people, and the relationship with neighbors, with a focus on the accessibility of practical help.
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Multidimensional Scale for Perceived Social Support
Distinguish perceived social support from three sources: family, friends, and significant others.
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Medical Outcomes Study (MOS) Social Support Survey
Multidimensional social support survey that assesses four functional social support domains (tangible, emotional/informational, affectionate, and positive social interaction) and also includes a question about the number of close friends and family.
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Duke–UNC Functional Social Support Scale
Multidimensional, functional social support questionnaire that measures perceived support. The original scale by Broadhead et al 1998 was validated with 8 items that measure the quantity of confidant (having someone to share and discuss important matters in life) and affective (being shown love and caring) support.
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Caregiver Workload Interviews
Interviews assessed caregiver workload based on recall over the previous six months. This tool was developed by researchers to ask caregivers to report time spent on domestic tasks, agricultural work, handicrafts, drying vegetables, and leisure.
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Maternal Self-Efficacy for Complementary Feeding Scale
The Maternal Self-Efficacy for Complementary Feeding (MSE-CF) scale is composed of four questions related to maternal self-efficacy for (1) feeding family-cooked foods, (2) avoiding feeding store-bought snacks, (3) being able to decide the types of foods fed to the child, and (4) raising a healthy child.
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Time Dimension of the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI)
The WEAI is a broad empowerment measure that includes a time dimension with two indicators: time use or workload, and satisfaction with leisure time.