The Geriatric Anxiety Inventory in primary care: applicability and psychometric characteristics of the original and short form
Abstract Background Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) has negative implications for people’s lives, but is often underdiagnosed in the elderly. There is a shortage of instruments to assess geriatric anxiety. Objectives To analyze the applicability and psychometric properties of the Portuguese v...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Universidade de São Paulo
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Series: | Archives of Clinical Psychiatry |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-60832016000500103&lng=en&tlng=en |