Modified attitudes to psychiatry scale created using principal-components analysis

Academic Psychiatry

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 360-364

  Shankar, Rohit ^a,b,c,d   Laugharne, Richard ^a,b,c,d   Pritchard, Colin ^a,b,c,d   Joshi, Pallavi ^a,b,c,d   Dhar, Romika ^a,b,c,d  

^a Learning Disabilities Developmental Neuropsychiatry ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL CORNWALL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c Grant Govt Medical College   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMAN; INDIA; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS;

ATTITUDE; CAREER CHOICE; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 84857575413     PISSN: 10429670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ap.35.6.360     Document Type: Article

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