Validation of the Arab Youth Mental Health scale as a screening tool for depression/anxiety in Lebanese children

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Mahfoud, Ziyad ^a   Abdulrahim, Sawsan ^b   Taha, Madeleine B ^b   Harpham, Trudy ^c   El Hajj, Taghreed ^b   Makhoul, Jihad ^b   Nakkash, Rima ^b   Kanj, Mayada ^b   Afifi, Rema ^b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Qatar)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^c LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARAB YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH SCALE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEBANON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 79953122334     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17532000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1753-2000-5-9     Document Type: Article

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