Reliability and sensitivity to change of the Family Life Questionnaire in a clinical population

Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 121-125

  Last, Anna ^a   Miles, Rebecca ^a   Wills, Laura ^a   Brownhill, Louise ^a   Ford, Tamsin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Family functioning measure; Family Life Questionnaire; Internal consistency; Sensitivity to change; Test retest reliability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALABAMA POSITIVE PARENTING SCALE; ARTICLE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; FAMILY FUNCTIONING; FAMILY LIFE QUESTIONNAIRE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PARENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; STRENGTHS AND DIFFICULTIES QUESTIONNAIRE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VALIDITY;

EID: 84859489839     PISSN: 1475357X     EISSN: 14753588     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-3588.2011.00621.x     Document Type: Article

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