Psychometric properties of the Brief Symptom Inventory in a sample of recovered Iranian depressed patients

International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 541-551

  Mohammadkhani, Parvaneh ^a   Dobson, Keith S ^b   Amiri, Mehdi ^a   Ghafari, Fatemeh Hosseini ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND REHABILITATION SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Factor analysis; Instrumental study; Inventory; Reliability; Symptoms

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956734595     PISSN: 16972600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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