Validation of the Beck Depression Inventory - II in a Jamaican university student cohort

West Indian Medical Journal

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 404-408

  Lipps, Garth E ^a   Lowe, G A ^a   Young, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CENTER FOR EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES DEPRESSION SCALE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; JAMAICA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RELIABILITY; UCLA LONELINESS SCALE; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAMAICA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 38949091182     PISSN: 00433144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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