Using rasch analysis to test the cross-cultural item equivalence of the harvard trauma questionnaire and the hopkins symptom checklist across Vietnamese and Cambodian immigrant mothers

Journal of Applied Measurement

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 16-38

  Choi, Yoonsun ^a,c   Mericle, Amy ^a   Karachi, Tracy W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; CAMBODIA; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; INJURY; MIGRATION; MOTHER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION STUDY; VIET NAM;

ADOLESCENT; CAMBODIA; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTHERS; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES; VIETNAM; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 31344471696     PISSN: 15297713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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