Latino farmworkers (LFWs) experience depression at a significant higher rate than non-Latino Whites; yet, research regarding depression-screening instruments in Spanish is scarce. The first author created a depression screener using terms used by LFWs to describe symptoms of depression. This study evaluated the effectiveness of the Latino Farmworker Affective Scale (LFAS-15) in accurately detecting symptoms of depression in this population as compared with the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI-18), and the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CESD-10) using the DSM structured clinical interview (SCID) as the reference standard. Study results indicated that the LFAS-15, as well as the PHQ-9, and the BSI-18 performed. The data also indicated that the LFAS-15 has good internal consistency, measures primarily one construct (depression), demonstrated convergent validity with the SCID, and has good combined sensitivity and specificity. Recommendations for clinical practice, policy, and research are offered.

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改善拉丁裔农民工抑郁症状的检测：拉丁裔农民工情感量表

拉丁裔农场工人（LFWs）的抑郁症发生率明显高于非拉丁裔白人。然而，关于西班牙语的抑郁症筛查工具的研究很少。第一作者使用LFW用来描述抑郁症状的术语创建了抑郁筛查仪。这项研究评估了拉丁裔农民工情感量表（LFAS-15）与患者健康调查表（PH​​Q-9），简要症状调查表（BSI-18）和患者健康问卷相比，在准确检测该人群中抑郁症状的有效性。流行病学研究中心抑郁量表（CESD-10）使用DSM结构化临床访谈（SCID）作为参考标准。研究结果表明，LFAS-15，PHQ-9和BSI-18的性能均得到了验证。数据还表明LFAS-15具有良好的内部一致性，主要测量一种构建体（抑郁），与SCID表现出收敛的有效性，并且具有良好的组合敏感性和特异性。提供了有关临床实践，政策和研究的建议。