Caregiving in schizophrenia: Development, internal consistency and reliability of the involvement evaluation questionnaire - European version. EPSILON study 4

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 177, Issue SUPPL. 39, 2000, Pages

  Van Wijngaarden, Bob ^a   Schene, Aart H ^a   Koeter, Maarten ^a   Vázquez Barquero, José Luis ^b   Knudsen, Helle Charlotte ^c   Lasalvia, Antonio ^c   McCrone, Paul ^c  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^c Academic Medical Centre ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL TRIAL; EUROPE; EVALUATION; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MULTICENTER STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STANDARDIZATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0033918717     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.177.39.s21     Document Type: Article

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