An examination of the measurement adequacy of the CES-D among African American women family caregivers

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 179, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 107-112

  Rozario, Philip A ^a   Menon, Natasha ^b  

^a ADELPHI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Confirmatory factor analysis; Depression; Ethnicity; Mental Health

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CENTER FOR EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES DEPRESSION SCALE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; ETHNICITY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; RURAL AREA; SOMATIZATION; URBAN AREA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HEALTH SURVEY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAREGIVERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 77955417255     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2010.06.022     Document Type: Article

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