Choosing negative symptom instruments: Issues of representation and redundancy

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 47-56

  Welham, Joy ^a   Stedman, Terry ^a   Clair, Anne ^a  

^a WOLSTON PARK HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale; Negative syndrome; Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale; Redundancy analysis; Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEGATIVE SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; BEHAVIORAL SYMPTOMS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS;

EID: 0032825229     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1781(99)00042-6     Document Type: Article

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