Reliability, validity and psychometric properties of the Greek translation of the Major Depression Inventory

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Fountoulakis, K N ^a   Iocovides, A ^a   Kleanthous, S ^a   Samoulis, S ^a   Gougoulias, K ^a   Tsiptsios, I ^a   Kaprinis, G S ^a   Bech, P ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b FREDERIKSBORG GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION PROCESS; VARIANCE; ADOLESCENT; DEPRESSION; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PUBLICATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSLATIONS;

EID: 2642548160     PISSN: 1471244X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-3-2     Document Type: Article

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