Test - retest reliability of two instruments for measuring public attitudes towards persons with mental illness

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Svensson, Bengt ^a   Markström, Urban ^b   Bejerholm, Ulrika ^a   Björkman, Tommy ^a   Brunt, David ^d   Eklund, Mona ^a   Hansson, Lars ^a   Leufstadius, Christel ^a   Gyllensten, Amanda L ^a   Sandlund, Mikael ^b   Östman, Margareta ^c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c MALMÖ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO MENTAL ILLNESS; CHANGING MIND QUESTIONNAIRE; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; FEAR AND BEHAVIOURAL INTENTION QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; KAPPA STATISTICS; MENTAL DISEASE; NURSING STUDENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL PATIENT; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; PUBLIC OPINION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS; SWEDEN;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTALLY ILL PERSONS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOMETRICS; PUBLIC OPINION; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF REPORT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STEREOTYPING; STUDENTS, NURSING; SWEDEN; TRANSLATING;

EID: 78651377753     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-11-11     Document Type: Article

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