Psychometric analyses of the Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS) - Bosnian translation

Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 161-168

  Charney, Meredith E ^a,b   Keane, Terence M ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Bosnian translation; Clinician Administered PTSD Scale; Convergent validity; Factor structure; Internal consistency; PTSD; Refugee; Reliability; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA; CLINICIAN ADMINISTERED PTSD SCALE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; INTERVIEW; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRY; REFUGEE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; VALIDITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA; BOSTON; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; REFUGEES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TRANSLATING;

EID: 34248589937     PISSN: 10999809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1099-9809.13.2.161     Document Type: Article

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