The child posttraumatic stress disorder checklist in a sample of South African Youth: Establishing factorial validity

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 200, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 692-698

  Frank Schultz, Friederike ^a   Naidoo, Pamela ^a,b   Cloete, Karen J ^c   Seedat, Soraya ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^b HUMAN SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Posttraumatic stress disorder; psychometric properties; South Africa; trauma; youth

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANGER; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CHILD POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER CHECKLIST; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; CONDUCT DISORDER; DEPRESSION; DISSOCIATION; ENURESIS; FACTORIAL VALIDITY; FEMALE; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; OPPOSITIONAL DEFIANT DISORDER; PHOBIA; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOMETRY; RELIABILITY; SCHEDULE FOR AFFECTIVE DISORDERS AND SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEPARATION ANXIETY; VALIDITY;

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; CHECKLIST; CHILD; DEPRESSION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOUTH AFRICA; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 84864870975     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e31826140e7     Document Type: Article

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