Problems in Cross-Cultural Use of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale: "No Butterflies in the Desert"

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Maters, Gemma A ^a   Sanderman, Robbert ^a   Kim, Aimee Y ^b   Coyne, James C ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CULTURAL FACTOR; CULTURAL SENSITIVITY; DEPRESSION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANXIETY; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; DEPRESSION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSLATIONS;

EID: 84881232487     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070975     Document Type: Article

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