Internal consistency of Waldrop Physical Anomaly Scale in schizophrenic patients

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 81-88

  Akabaliev, Valentin Hristov ^a   Sivkov, Stefan Todorov ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF PLOVDIV   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Dysmorphogenesis; Gender; Scale reliability; Schizophrenia; Waldrop Physical Anomaly Scale

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOGENESIS; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEX DIFFERENCE; WALDROP PHYSICAL ANOMALY SCALE;

ABNORMALITIES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STATISTICS;

EID: 33847109760     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2003.02.002     Document Type: Article

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