Differential item functioning in a Spanish translation of the PTSD checklist: Detection and evaluation of impact

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 50-59

  Orlando, Maria ^a   Marshall, Grant N ^a  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TRANSLATIONS;

EID: 0036195951     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1040-3590.14.1.50     Document Type: Article

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