import type { AssessmentDefinition } from "../types.ts"; import { kesslerFrequencyLabels } from "./common.ts"; /** * K6 — Kessler Psychological Distress Scale, 6 items (Kessler et al., * 2002). * * Non-specific psychological distress over the past 30 days. Items are * scored 0–4 per the U.S. convention, total 0–24; 13 or above indicates * serious psychological distress (Kessler et al., 2003), 5–12 moderate * distress (Prochaska et al., 2012). The K6 is in the public domain and * free for clinical and research use. */ export const k6: AssessmentDefinition = { id: "k6", version: "1.0.0", categories: ["distress"], audience: ["adult"], respondent: "self", title: { en: "Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K6)", }, description: { en: "A 6-item screening measure of non-specific psychological distress over the past 30 days.", }, instructions: { en: "The following questions ask about how you have been feeling during the past 30 days.", }, defaultLocale: "en", options: kesslerFrequencyLabels.map((label, i) => ({ value: i, label: { en: label } })), questions: [ { id: "k6-1", text: { en: "During the past 30 days, about how often did you feel nervous?" } }, { id: "k6-2", text: { en: "During the past 30 days, about how often did you feel hopeless?" } }, { id: "k6-3", text: { en: "During the past 30 days, about how often did you feel restless or fidgety?" } }, { id: "k6-4", text: { en: "During the past 30 days, about how often did you feel so depressed that nothing could cheer you up?" } }, { id: "k6-5", text: { en: "During the past 30 days, about how often did you feel that everything was an effort?" } }, { id: "k6-6", text: { en: "During the past 30 days, about how often did you feel worthless?" } }, ], scoring: { kind: "sum", missing: { strategy: "require-complete" }, bands: [ { id: "low", min: 0, max: 4, label: { en: "Low psychological distress" } }, { id: "moderate", min: 5, max: 12, label: { en: "Moderate psychological distress" } }, { id: "serious", min: 13, max: 24, label: { en: "Serious psychological distress" } }, ], }, meta: { reference: "Kessler, R. C., Andrews, G., Colpe, L. J., Hiripi, E., Mroczek, D. K., Normand, S.-L. T., Walters, E. E., & Zaslavsky, A. M. (2002). Short screening scales to monitor population prevalences and trends in non-specific psychological distress. Psychological Medicine, 32(6), 959-976.", license: "Free — the K6 is in the public domain and free for clinical and research use", licenseFlag: "free", translationProvenance: "en: reproduced from the original instrument (Kessler et al., 2002). Other locales (tr, de, zh, es): AI translation (Anthropic Claude, claude-sonnet-5) from the original English; official translations were not consulted and the texts are unverified. See SOURCES.md.", timeframe: "past 30 days", scoringNote: "Uses the U.S. 0-4 coding (total 0-24). The >=13 serious-distress cutoff follows Kessler et al. (2003); the 5-12 moderate band follows Prochaska et al. (2012).", }, };