Measuring Mental Health Following Traumatization: Psychometric Analysis of the Kuwait Raha Scale Using a Random National Household Data Set

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 221-227

  Chapman, Paula ^a   Figley, Charles R ^b   Ashkanani, Hadi Ridha ^c   Al Naser, Fahad ^c  

^a Health Services Research   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Kuwait; mental health; trauma; well being

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; KUWAIT; KUWAIT RAHA SCALE; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOTRAUMA; RANDOM SAMPLE;

ADULT; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KUWAIT; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 66349122762     PISSN: 00029432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015541     Document Type: Article

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