World Health Organization 5-item well-being index: Validation of the Brazilian Portuguese version

European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 262, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 239-244

  De Souza, Camila Morelatto ^a,b   Hidalgo, Maria Paz Loayza ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b HOSPITAL DE CLÍNICAS DE PORTO ALEGRE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Depression; Quality of life; Scale; Validation studies; WHO

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BRAZIL; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EXTERNAL VALIDITY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERNAL VALIDITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PORTUGAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SELF CONCEPT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX RATIO; VALIDATION STUDY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION 5 ITEM WELL BEING INDEX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BRAZIL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862882971     PISSN: 09401334     EISSN: 14338491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00406-011-0255-x     Document Type: Article

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