On the development and psychometric testing of the WHO screening instrument to assess disablement in the general population

International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 110-122

  Rehm, Jürgen ^a,c   Üstün, T Bedirhan ^a   Saxena, Shekhar ^a   Nelson, Christopher B ^a   Chatter, Somnath ^b   Ivis, Frank ^b   Adlaf, E D ^b  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cross cultural instrument; Disablement; Item response theory; Psychometry; Screening instrument

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001507468     PISSN: 10498931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mpr.61     Document Type: Article

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