Trial development of the Cognitive Appraisal Scale for Infertility (CASI) (version 1)

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2596-2601

  Saito, Yoshiko ^a,b   Matsuo, Hiroya ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

anxiety; depression; emotional responses to infertility; infertile women; infertility; reliability; Scale; validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE APPRAISAL SCALE FOR INFERTILITY; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HOPELESSNESS; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; LIBIDO DISORDER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF ESTEEM; SELF-RATING DEPRESSION SCALE; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY;

ADULT; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; DENIAL (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL, HOMOLOGOUS; LIBIDO; OVULATION INDUCTION; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349268413     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.03.052     Document Type: Article

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