Validation of life-charts documented with the personal life-chart app - a self-monitoring tool for bipolar disorder

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Schärer, Lars O ^a   Krienke, Ute J ^b   Graf, Sandra Mareike ^a   Meltzer, Katharina ^a   Langosch, Jens M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICINE GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

App; Bipolar disorder; Life chart; Quality of life; Self monitoring; Validation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; DSM-IV; HUMAN; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; INVENTORY OF DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMATOLOGY; LIFE CHART FUNCTIONAL IMPAIRMENT RATING; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH LIFE CHART METHOD; PERSONAL LIFE CHART; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; SELF MONITORING; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VALIDATION STUDY; VALIDITY; YOUNG MANIA RATING SCALE; ADULT; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; LANGUAGE; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; SELF CARE; STANDARDS; TRANSLATING (LANGUAGE);

ADULT; BIPOLAR DISORDER; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF CARE; TRANSLATING;

EID: 84928266002     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12888-015-0414-0     Document Type: Article

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