Validation of the Rasch-based Depression Screening in a large scale German general population sample

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 8, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Forkmann, Thomas ^a   Boecker, Maren ^a   Wirtz, Markus ^b   Glaesmer, Heide ^c   Brähler, Elmar ^c   Norra, Christine ^d   Gauggel, Siegfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^d RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SCREENING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 77956701455     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-8-105     Document Type: Article

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