Portuguese version of the PTSD Checklist-Military Version (PCL-M)-I: Confirmatory Factor Analysis and reliability

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 226, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 53-60

  Carvalho, Teresa ^a,b   Cunha, Marina ^a,b   Pinto Gouveia, José ^b   Duarte, Joana ^b  

^a Instituto Superior Miguel Torga   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Assessment of PTSD symptoms; Latent structure of PCL M; Portuguese Colonial War Veterans; Portuguese validation; Psychometric properties; Trauma; War exposure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DSM-IV; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PORTUGUESE; PORTUGUESE (CITIZEN); POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; PTSD CHECKLIST MILITARY VERSION; SCREENING; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; VETERAN; AGED; CHECKLIST; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; MALE; PORTUGAL; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF REPORT; STANDARDS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHECKLIST; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTUGAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF REPORT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VETERANS;

EID: 84926219799     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 18727123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2014.11.055     Document Type: Article

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