The yoruba version of the beck hopelessness scale: Psychometric characteristics and correlates of hopelessness in a sample of Nigerian psychiatric outpatients

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 56, Issue , 2015, Pages 258-271

  Aloba, Olutayo ^a   Akinsulore, Adesanmi ^a   Mapayi, Boladale ^a   Oloniniyi, Ibiduniyi ^a   Mosaku, Kolawole ^a   Alimi, Taiwo ^a   Esan, Olufemi ^a  

^a OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITALS COMPLEX   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BECK HOPELESSNESS SCALE; BIPOLAR DEPRESSION; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY; ETHNIC GROUP; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GLOBAL ASSESSMENT OF FUNCTIONING; HOPELESSNESS; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MINI INTERNATIONAL NEUROPSYCHIATRIC INTERVIEW; NIGERIA; NIGERIAN; OUTPATIENT; POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE SYNDROME SCALE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCORING SYSTEM; SUICIDE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; VALIDITY; VARIMAX ROTATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ADOLESCENT; AGED; DEVICES; ETHNOLOGY; HOPE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIPOLAR DISORDER; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HOPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84920711992     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: 15328384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2014.09.024     Document Type: Article

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