Validity of the Greek version of the PHQ 15-item Somatic Symptom Severity Scale in patients with chronic medical conditions and correlations with emergency department use and illness perceptions

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1950-1959

  Hyphantis, Thomas ^a   Kroenke, Kurt ^b   Papatheodorou, Eugenia ^a   Paika, Vassiliki ^a   Theocharopoulos, Nicholaos ^a   Ninou, Aggeliki ^a   Tomenson, Barbara ^c   Carvalho, Andre F ^d   Guthrie, Elspeth ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d University of Ceará CE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BRIEF ILLNESS PERCEPTION QUESTIONNAIRE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT VALIDITY; CRITERION RELATED VALIDITY; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY WARD; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GREECE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MINI INTERNATIONAL NEUROPSYCHIATRIC INTERVIEW; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PATIENT HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE 15; PATIENT HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE 9; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SCORING SYSTEM; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; SYMPTOM CHECKLIST SOMATIZATION SCALE 12; THORAX PAIN; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION QUALITY OF LIFE INSTRUMENT SHORT FORM; DEVICES; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RHEUMATIC DISEASES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; STANDARDS;

AGED; DIABETES MELLITUS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RHEUMATIC DISEASES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS;

EID: 84912104577     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: 15328384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2014.08.042     Document Type: Article

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