Reliability, validity and psychometric properties of the Greek translation of the Zung Depression Rating Scale

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 1, Issue , 2001, Pages

  Fountoulakis, Konstantinos ^a   Iacovides, Apoptolos ^a   Samolis, Stavros ^a   Kleanthous, Soula ^a   Kaprinis, Stergios G ^a   St Kaprinis, George ^a   Bech, Per ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b FREDERIKSBORG GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GREECE; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SELF REPORT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THINKING; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0002255067     PISSN: 1471244X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-1-6     Document Type: Article

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