Psychometric properties of the center for epidemiologic studies depression scale in an egyptian student sample: A preliminary report

Middle East Current Psychiatry

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 223-228

  Beshai, Shadi ^a   Dobson, Keith S ^a   Adel, Ashraf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

adaptation; Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale; cross cultural research; depression; factor analysis; validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885646739     PISSN: 20905408     EISSN: 20905416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.XME.0000433324.92161.6d     Document Type: Article

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