Asking For Help is Helpful: Validation of a Brief Lifestyle and Mood Assessment Tool in Primary Health Care
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Asking for help is helpful: validation of a brief lifestyle and mood assessment tool in primary health care.
PURPOSE The short, validated, self-administered, Case-finding and Help Assessment Tool (CHAT) for lifestyle and mental health assessment of adult patients in primary health care addresses inactivity, tobacco use, alcohol and other drug misuse, problem gambling, depression, anxiety and stress, abuse, and anger problems. For each issue patients are asked whether they would like help, either durin...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Annals of Family Medicine
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1544-1709,1544-1717
DOI: 10.1370/afm.962