Assessing the stability of schizophrenia patients' explanatory models of illness over time

Journal of Mental Health

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 163-169

  Mccabe, Rosemarie ^a,b   Priebe, Stefan ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWHAM CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Explanatory model; Schizophrenia; Stability; Test retest reliability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MENTAL PATIENT; PATHOGENESIS; PERCEPTION; PROGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 3242739616     PISSN: 09638237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09638230410001669291     Document Type: Article

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