The assessment of craving: Psychometric properties, factor structure and a revised version of the Alcohol Craving Questionnaire (ACQ)

Addiction

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 227-234

  Raabe, Almut ^b   Grüsser, Sabine M ^c   Wessa, Michèle ^a   Podschus, Jan ^d   Flor, Herta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d Vivantes Klinikum Hellersdorf   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alcohol craving; Alcohol dependence; Assessment; Confirmatory factor analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 13844276241     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2005.00960.x     Document Type: Article

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