Validation and test-retest reliability of the Royal Free Interview for Spiritual and Religious Beliefs when adapted to a Greek population

Annals of General Psychiatry

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Sapountzi Krepia, Despina ^a   Raftopoulos, Vasilios ^b   Sgantzos, Marcos ^c   Kotrotsiou, Evangelia ^d   Roupa Darivaki, Zoe ^d   Sotiropoulou, Kalliope ^e   Ntourou, Ionna ^f   Dimitriadou, Alexandra ^a  

^a ALEXANDER TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Hellenic Centre for Infectious Diseases Control   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^d TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LARISSA   (Greece)

^e BANK OF GREECE   (Greece)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; RELIGION; SELF REPORT; STANDARDIZATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 20744448859     PISSN: 1744859X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1744-859X-4-6     Document Type: Article

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