A Japanese scale to assess anxiety severity: Development and psychometric evaluation

International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 29-45

  Mimura, Chizu ^a   Nishioka, Miho ^a   Sato, Noriyuki ^b   Hasegawa, Ryoko ^b   Horikoshi, Ryu ^b   Watanabe, Yoshinori ^a  

^a Himorogi Psychiatric Institute   (Japan)

^b Horikoshi Shinshin Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

anxiety; factor analysis; reproducibility of results; ROC curve; sensitivity and specificity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTICIPATION; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; DEPERSONALIZATION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEAR; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HAMILTON ANXIETY SCALE; HIMOROGI SELF RATING ANXIETY SCALE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JAPANESE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HOSPITAL; MENTAL PATIENT; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOMETRY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REMISSION; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION DISORDER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEEHAN PATIENT RATED ANXIETY SCALE; TENSION; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDERS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 79551598945     PISSN: 00912174     EISSN: 15413527     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/PM.41.1.d     Document Type: Article

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