Screening for children's depression symptoms in Greece: The use of the Children's Depression Inventory in a nation-wide school-based sample

European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 485-492

  Giannakopoulos, George ^a   Kazantzi, Maria ^a   Dimitrakaki, Christine ^a   Tsiantis, John ^b   Kolaitis, Gerasimos ^c   Tountas, Yannis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b Association for the Psychosocial Health of Children and Adolescents (APHCA)   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Children's Depression Inventory; Greece; Reliability; Screening

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSION INVENTORY; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOMETRY; RELIABILITY; SCHOOL CHILD; SCREENING; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY;

AGE FACTORS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 68649106140     PISSN: 10188827     EISSN: 1435165X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00787-009-0005-z     Document Type: Article

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