Brief alcoholism screening questionnaire: Establishment and validity in Taiwanese

Journal of the Formosan Medical Association

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 250-256

  Hwu, Hai Gwo ^a   Gorenc, Klaus Dieter ^b   Peredo, Sandra ^b   Hwang, Tzung Jeng ^a   Abreu, Luis Felipe ^b   Chen, Chiao Chicy ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c TAIPEI CITY PSYCHIATRIC CENTER   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Alcoholism, cultural characteristics; Questionnaires, reproducibility of results; Sensitivity and specificity

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH CENTER; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TAIWAN; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALCOHOLISM; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TAIWAN;

EID: 0042914552     PISSN: 09296646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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