Interviews versus checklists: adequacy for classifying childhood psychiatric disorder based on adolescent reports

International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 309-319

  Boyle, Michael H ^a,b   Offord, David R ^a,b   Racine, Yvonne A ^a,b   Szatmari, Peter ^a,b   Sanford, Mark ^a,b   Fleming, Jan E ^a,b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b HAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Childhood disorder; Classification; Questionnaires; Surveys

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038598513     PISSN: 10498931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1234-988x(199612)6:4<309::aid-mpr172>3.3.co;2-2     Document Type: Article

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