The development of the child and adolescent versions of the Verona Service Satisfaction Scale (CAMHSSS)

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 892-901

  Ayton, Agnes K ^a,b   Mooney, Michael P ^b   Sillifant, Kate ^c   Powls, Jonathan ^d   Rasool, Hufrize ^d  

^a Darwin Centre   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^c Norfolk Mental Health Care Trust   (United Kingdom)

^d West End Child and Family Service   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Child and adolescent mental health services; Consumer satisfaction; Reliability; Reproducibility of results

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VERONA SERVICE SATISFACTION SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT HEALTH SERVICES; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; DAY CARE; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENTS; PARENTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 37449032135     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-007-0241-9     Document Type: Article

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