The criterion validity of different versions of the General Health Questionnaire among non-psychiatric inpatients

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 635-641

  Friedrich, Fabian ^a   Alexandrowicz, Rainer ^b   Benda, Norbert ^a   Cerny, Gero ^a   Wancata, Johannes ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

General; Health; Inpatients; Questionnaire; Screening; Sensitivity and specificity; Validity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MENTAL DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; VALIDATION STUDY;

AUSTRIA; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MENTAL DISORDERS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 80051720881     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-010-0229-8     Document Type: Article

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