Development, item analysis, and initial reliability and validity of a multiple-choice knowledge of mental illnesses test for lay samples

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 189, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 141-148

  Compton, Michael T ^a   Hankerson Dyson, Dana ^b   Broussard, Beth ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Item analysis; Knowledge; Mental health literacy; Mental illnesses; Reliability; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MENTAL DISEASE; MULTIPLE CHOICE KNOWLEDGE OF MENTAL ILNESSES TEST; MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; POLICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STAFF TRAINING; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY;

ADULT; AGED; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051697509     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 18727123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2011.05.041     Document Type: Article

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