The yale-brown obsessive-compulsive scale: Factor structure of a large sample

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Volumn , Issue JUL, 2010, Pages

  Anholt, Gideon E ^a   van Oppen, Patricia ^a   Cath, Danielle C ^a,b   Smit, Johannes H ^a   den Boer, Johan A ^c   Verbraak, Marc J P M ^d,e,f   van Balkom, Anton J L M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^e ADAPT Expert Center of Anxiety Disorders   (Netherlands)

^f Howard Sloan Koller Groep   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Factor analysis; Measurement; Obsessive compulsive disorder

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866770137     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16640640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2010.00018     Document Type: Article

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