Psychometric qualities of the Brazilian versions of the Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence and the Heaviness of Smoking Index

Nicotine and Tobacco Research

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1160-1165

  de Meneses Gaya, Carolina ^a,b   Zuardi, Antonio W ^a,b   de Azevedo Marques, João Mazzoncini ^a   Souza, Roberto M ^a   Loureiro, Sonia R ^a,b   Crippa, José Alexandre S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b National Institute for Translational Medicine INCT TM CNPq   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FAGERSTROM TEST FOR NICOTINE DEPENDENCE; FEMALE; GOLD STANDARD; HEAVINESS OF SMOKING INDEX; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; UNIVERSITY STUDENT;

BRAZIL; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOBACCO USE DISORDER;

EID: 70349548582     PISSN: 14622203     EISSN: 1469994X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ntr/ntp114     Document Type: Article

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