Assessing the construct validity of three indicators of psychological distress in relation to perceived health and physical illness

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1012-1018

  Koopmans, Gerrit T ^a   Lamers, Leida M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Construct validity; Health status measurement; Perceived health; Psychological distress; Somatic morbidity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MARKER; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVOUSNESS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSICAL DISEASE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; SELF REPORT; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SOCIAL CLASS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 30944449706     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-005-0957-3     Document Type: Article

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