Validation of the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Severity Scale in African Americans with obsessive-compulsive disorder

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 209, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 214-221

  Williams, Monnica T ^a   Wetterneck, Chad T ^b   Thibodeau, Michel A ^c   Duque, Gerardo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

African Americans; Assessment; Ethnic differences; Measurement; Obsessive compulsive disorder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BECK ANXIETY INVENTORY; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CLINICAL GLOBAL IMPRESSION SCALE; CONVERGENT VALIDITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GLOBAL ASSESSMENT OF FUNCTIONING; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; VALIDATION PROCESS; YALE BROWN OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE SCALE;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ASSESSMENT; ETHNIC DIFFERENCES; MEASUREMENT; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ANXIETY; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84883244585     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 18727123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2013.04.007     Document Type: Article

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