The Short Anxiety Screening Test in Greek: Translation and validation

Annals of General Psychiatry

Volumn 9, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Grammatikopoulos, Ilias A ^a   Sinoff, Gary ^b   Alegakis, Athanasios ^a   Kounalakis, Dimitrios ^c   Antonopoulou, Maria ^d   Lionis, Christos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b CARMEL MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c Health Center of Anogia   (Greece)

^d Health Center of Spili   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COGNITION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PSYCHOMETRY; PUBLICATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; RURAL AREA; SHORT ANXIETY SCREENING TEST; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VALIDITY;

EID: 76749147394     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1744859X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1744-859X-9-1     Document Type: Article

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