"Real world" functioning in schizophrenia patients and healthy adults: Assessing validity of the Multidimensional Scale of Independent Functioning

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 186, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 123-127

  Miles, Ashley A ^a   Heinrichs, R Walter ^a   Ammari, Narmeen ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Functional outcome; Measurement; Real world functioning; Schizophrenia; Validity

Indexed keywords

ATYPICAL ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENT; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY LIVING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALE OF INDEPENDENT FUNCTIONING; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCORING SYSTEM; VALIDATION STUDY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951856570     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2010.07.052     Document Type: Article

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