The Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS): Detecting anxiety disorder and depression in employees absent from work because of mental health problems

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2003, Pages

  Nieuwenhuijsen, K ^a   De Boer, A G E M ^a   Verbeek, J H A M ^a   Blonk, R W B ^b   Van Dijk, F J H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSENTEEISM; ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSION ANXIETY STRESS SCALE; EVALUATION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ABSENTEEISM; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY DISORDERS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0037805767     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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