Measuring anxiety: Are we getting what we need?

Depression and Anxiety

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-10

  Balon, Richard ^a,b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UPC Jefferson   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Measuring anxiety; Psychometrics; Rating scales

Indexed keywords

ABERDEEN TRAUMA SCREENING INDEX; ANXIETY DISORDER; CLINICAL GLOBAL IMPRESSION SCALE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HEALTH ANXIETY INVENTORY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIEBOWITZ SOCIAL ANXIETY SCALE; MEASUREMENT; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE; REVIEW; SELF CONCEPT; SELF RATING INVENTORY FOR POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; YALE BROWN OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE SCALE;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; COGNITION; HUMANS; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; MASS SCREENING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 25844509274     PISSN: 10914269     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/da.20077     Document Type: Review

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