Measuring subjective complaints of attention and performance failures - development and psychometric validation in tinnitus of the self-assessment scale APSA

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Bankstahl, Ulli Simone ^a   Görtelmeyer, Roman ^a,b  

^a MERZ PHARMACEUTICALS GMBH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Performance; Reliability; Self rating scale; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION AND PERFORMANCE SELF ASSESSMENT SCALE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEPRESSION; DEVELOPMENTAL SCREENING; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MEXICO; MULTICENTER STUDY; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SYMPTOM; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; TINNITUS; TINNITUS HANDICAP INVENTORY 12; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION STUDY; ADOLESCENT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; ATTENTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; CULTURAL FACTOR; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; MIDDLE AGED; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF EVALUATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARDS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; AGED; ATTENTION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF-ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TINNITUS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84878228490     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-11-86     Document Type: Article

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