Measuring engagement in deliberate self-harm behaviours: Psychometric evaluation of six scales

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 13, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Latimer, Shane ^a   Meade, Tanya ^a   Tennant, Alan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deliberate self harm; Rasch measurement; Self injurious behaviour; Self mutilation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; DELIBERATE SELF HARM; DELIBERATE SELF HARM INVENTORY; EXTERNAL VALIDITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INVENTORY OF STATEMENT ABOUT SELF INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MENTAL PATIENT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SELF HARM INFORMATION FORM; SELF HARM INVENTORY; SELF INJURIOUS THOUGHT AND BEHAVIOR INTERVIEW; SELF INJURY QUESTIONNAIRE TREATMENT RELATED; UNIVERSITY STUDENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871712122     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-13-4     Document Type: Article

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