Reporting Questionnaire for Children as a Screening Instrument for Child Mental Health Problems in Iraqi Kurdistan

Transcultural Psychiatry

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 5-26

  Ahmad, Abdulbaghi ^a   Abdul Majeed, Anas M ^a   Siddiq, Aras A ^a   Jabar, Fatima ^a   Qahar, Jabar ^a   Rasheed, Jihan ^a   Von Knorring, Anne Liis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUHOK   (Iraq)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

behaviour problems; CBCL; Kurdistan children; PTSS C; RQC

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGGRESSIVENESS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CAREGIVER; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR CHECKLIST; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVIEW; IRAQ; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; ORPHANAGE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PSYCHOSOCIAL WITHDRAWAL; PSYCHOSOMATICS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCREENING TEST; SOCIAL PROBLEM; VALIDATION PROCESS;

CHILD; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAQ; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MENTAL DISORDERS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; ROC CURVE;

EID: 33947401398     PISSN: 13634615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363461507074949     Document Type: Article

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