Impact of illness scale: Reliability, validity, and cross-cultural utility

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 416-423

  Klimidis, Steven ^a,b   Minas, Iraklis H ^a,b   Yamamoto, Kazuyoshi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPACT OF ILLNESS SCALE; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0034827398     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/comp.2001.26266     Document Type: Article

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