Can positive affect items be used to assess depressive disorders in the Japanese population?

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 153-158

  Iwata, N ^a   Umesue, M ^b   Egashira, K ^b   Hiro, H ^b   Mizoue, T ^b   Mishima, N ^b   Nagata, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; RATING SCALE; SYMPTOM;

ADULT; AFFECT; AMBULATORY CARE; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 0031973585     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291797005898     Document Type: Article

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