Measuring Somatic Complaints in Primary School Children: Validation and Revision of the German Children’s Somatization Inventory (CSI) and its Parental Version

Child Psychiatry and Human Development

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 786-799

  Gulewitsch, Marco Daniel ^a   Rosenkranz, Tabea ^a,b   Barkmann, Claus ^c   Schlarb, Angelika Anita ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^d BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abdominal pain; Children s Somatization Inventory; Factor analysis; Medically unexplained symptoms; Somatic symptoms

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; CHILD; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; MALE; PARENT; PROXY; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF REPORT; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; VALIDATION STUDY;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; CHILD; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; MALE; PARENTS; PROXY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF REPORT; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS;

EID: 84941315828     PISSN: 0009398X     EISSN: 15733327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10578-014-0520-0     Document Type: Article

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