Assessing local instrument reliability and validity: A field-based example from northern Uganda

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 685-692

  Betancourt, Theresa S ^a   Bass, Judith ^b   Borisova, Ivelina ^a   Neugebauer, Richard ^c   Speelman, Liesbeth ^d   Onyango, Grace ^e   Bolton, Paul ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d War Child   (Netherlands)

^e WORLD VISION INTERNATIONAL   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Culture; Mental health; Northern Uganda; Validity; War

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CONDUCT DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SYMPTOM; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; UGANDA; VALIDITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAREGIVERS; COMORBIDITY; CONDUCT DISORDER; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MEDICINE, AFRICAN TRADITIONAL; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UGANDA; WAR;

EID: 68349097283     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-008-0475-1     Document Type: Article

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