Psychometric Properties of the Child PTSD Checklist in a Community Sample of South African Children and Adolescents

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Boyes, Mark E ^a   Cluver, Lucie D ^a,b   Gardner, Frances ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR CHECKLIST; COMMUNITY SAMPLE; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DSM-IV; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SOUTH AFRICA; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VALIDITY;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMETRICS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOUTH AFRICA; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867055702     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046905     Document Type: Article

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