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Front. Psychiatry, 08 August 2023
Sec. Public Mental Health
Volume 14 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1253843

Corrigendum: Psychometric evaluation of PHQ-9 and GAD-7 among community health volunteers and nurses/midwives in Kenya following a nation-wide telephonic survey

This article is a correction to:

  1. Psychometric evaluation of PHQ–9 and GAD–7 among community health volunteers and nurses/midwives in Kenya following a nation-wide telephonic survey

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\r\nSabina Adhiambo Odero Sabina Adhiambo Odero1*Paul MwangiPaul Mwangi1Rachel OdhiamboRachel Odhiambo1Brenda Mumbua NziokaBrenda Mumbua Nzioka1Constance ShumbaConstance Shumba2Eunice Ndirangu-Mugo&#x;Eunice Ndirangu-Mugo2†Amina Abubakar Amina Abubakar1*
  • 1Institute for Human Development, Aga Khan University, Nairobi, Kenya
  • 2School of Nursing and Midwifery, Aga Khan University, Nairobi, Kenya

A corrigendum on
Psychometric evaluation of PHQ-9 and GAD-7 among community health volunteers and nurses/midwives in Kenya following a nation-wide telephonic survey

by Odero, S. A., Mwangi, P., Odhiambo, R., Nzioka, B. M., Shumba, C., Ndirangu-Mugo, E., and Abubakar, A. (2023). Front. Psychiatry 14:1123839. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1123839

In the published article, the surname of the fourth author was incorrectly written in the article's citation as “Mumbua Nzioka B” and copyright statement as “Mumbua Nzioka”. It should read “Nzioka BM” and “Nzioka”, respectively.

The author's name was also incorrectly abbreviated in the Author contributions statement as BN, while it should read BMN. This sentence previously stated:

“AA, CS, and EN-M: conceptualization and methodology. SO, BN, RO, AA, CS, and EN-M: investigation. RO, PM, and SO: data management. SO, PM, and AA: formal analysis. SO, BN, AA, CS, and EN-M: project administration and supervision. SO and PM: writing-original draft preparation. SO, PM, BN, RO, CS, EN-M, and AA: writing-review and editing. All authors read, provided feedback, approved, and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.”

The correct statement appears below:

“AA, CS, and EN-M: conceptualization and methodology. SO, BMN, RO, AA, CS, and EN-M: investigation. RO, PM, and SO: data management. SO, PM, and AA: formal analysis. SO, BMN, AA, CS, and EN-M: project administration and supervision. SO and PM: writing-original draft preparation. SO, PM, BMN, RO, CS, EN-M, and AA: writing-review and editing. All authors read, provided feedback, approved, and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.”

In the published article, there was an error. The authors stated that PHQ-9 and GAD-7 were significantly positively correlated with resilience and work engagement instead of negatively correlated in the results section of the abstract.

A correction has been made to Abstract, Results, Lines 97–99. This sentence previously stated:

“The PHQ-9 and GAD-7 were also significantly positively correlated with resilience and work engagement, supporting divergent validity.”

The corrected sentence appears below:

“The PHQ-9 and GAD-7 were significantly negatively correlated with resilience and work engagement, supporting divergent validity.”

The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.

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Keywords: anxiety, depression, community health volunteers, PHQ-9, GAD-7, nurses/midwives, reliability, validity

Citation: Odero SA, Mwangi P, Odhiambo R, Nzioka BM, Shumba C, Ndirangu-Mugo E and Abubakar A (2023) Corrigendum: Psychometric evaluation of PHQ-9 and GAD-7 among community health volunteers and nurses/midwives in Kenya following a nation-wide telephonic survey. Front. Psychiatry 14:1253843. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1253843

Received: 06 July 2023; Accepted: 31 July 2023;
Published: 08 August 2023.

Edited and reviewed by: Eduardo Fernández-Jiménez, University Hospital La Paz, Spain

Copyright © 2023 Odero, Mwangi, Odhiambo, Nzioka, Shumba, Ndirangu-Mugo and Abubakar. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

*Correspondence: Sabina Adhiambo Odero, c2FiaW5hLm9kZXJvJiN4MDAwNDA7YWt1LmVkdQ==; Amina Abubakar, YW1pbmEuYWJ1YmFrYXImI3gwMDA0MDtha3UuZWR1

†ORCID: Eunice Ndirangu-Mugo orcid.org/0000-0001-8594-0808

Disclaimer: All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher.