The greek translation of the symptoms rating scale for depression and anxiety: Preliminary results of the validation study

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Fountoulakis, Konstantinos ^a   Iacovides, Apostolos ^a   Kleanthous, Soula ^a   Samolis, Stavros ^a   Gougoulias, Kyriakos ^a   St Kaprinis, George ^a   Bech, Per ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b FREDERIKSBORG GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Depression; Greece; Reliability; Scales; Transcultural psychiatry; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONSENSUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MANIA; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MELANCHOLIA; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE; REFERENCE VALUE; RELIABILITY; SATISFACTION; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY DISORDERS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSLATIONS;

EID: 2642519656     PISSN: 1471244X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-3-21     Document Type: Article

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