The World Health Organisation has made available the ASSIST screening test version 3.0 and feedback card in multiple languages: English, Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, French, German, Hindi, Portuguese and Spanish languages.
This tool is for health professionals to gather and organise culturally-relevant clinical information from mental health clients, translated versions available but not validated.
The Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) is the most commonly used test for complaints of memory problem, it can be used by clinicians to help diagnose dementia and to help assess its progression and severity, authorised translations of the MMSE are available on application.
The M-CHAT tool can be used as part of a well-child check-up, and can also be used by specialists or other professionals to assess risk for Autism (ASD), multiple translations are available, validation of these translations is still underway.
The MOCA is used for detection of Mild Cognitive Impairment in multiple conditions including MCI/Alzheimer's Disease, Vascular Cognitive Impairment, Parkinson and Fronto-temporal dementia. This test and administration instructions are freely accessible at www.mocatest.org by registration and is available in 35 languages or dialects.
This tool is used by primary care clinicians for screening children and adolescents at risk for depression, multiple validated translated versions are available.
The Transcultural Mental Health Care Centre website provides a wide range of mental health assessment tools that have been translated.
This tool which is for identifying patients at risk for perinatal depression is available in multiple languages.
Two extended versions of the Cultural Formulation based on the DSM-IV outline have been developed. The guidelines for cultural assessment and formulation are intended to help the consultant collect, organise and integrate information pertinent to a cultural consultation with mental health clients.
The Kessler (K10) measure is intended to yield a global measure of ‘psychological distress’, based on questions about the level of anxiety and depressive symptoms in the patient’s most recent 4-week period, available in 29 languages.
MediBabble is a free medical translation tool, it can be used for history-taking and examination application to support medical diagnosis and treatment for non-English speakers, available in multiple languages.