Identifying individuals with generalised anxiety disorder: A receiver operator characteristic analysis of theoretically relevant measures

Behaviour Change

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 255-272

  Curtiss, Joshua ^a   Klemanski, David H ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Depression; Generalised anxiety disorder; Receiver operator characteristics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DSM-IV; FEMALE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOOD AND ANXIETY SYMPTOMS QUESTIONNAIRE; MOOD DISORDER; PENN STATE WORRY QUESTIONNAIRE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SELF REPORT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 84949726603     PISSN: 08134839     EISSN: 20497768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/bec.2015.15     Document Type: Article

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