Brief measure for screening complicated grief: Reliability and discriminant validity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Ito, Masaya ^a,b   Nakajima, Satomi ^a   Fujisawa, Daisuke ^c   Miyashita, Mitsunori ^d   Kim, Yoshiharu ^a   Shear, M Katherine ^e,f   Ghesquiere, Angela ^e   Wall, Melanie M ^f,g  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^f Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

^g Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BRIEF GRIEF QUESTIONNAIRE; COMPLICATED GRIEF; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; GENDER; GRIEF; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; JAPAN; MALE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; VALIDITY; MASS SCREENING; MENTAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD;

GRIEF; HUMANS; JAPAN; MASS SCREENING; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84863133290     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031209     Document Type: Article

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