Psychometric Properties of the General Anxiety Disorder 7-Item (GAD-7) Scale in a Heterogeneous Psychiatric Sample
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Psychometric analysis of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder scale (GAD-7) in primary care using modern item response theory
OBJECTIVE The Generalized Anxiety Disorder scale (GAD-7) is one of the most frequently used diagnostic self-report scales for screening, diagnosis and severity assessment of anxiety disorder. Its psychometric properties from the view of the Item Response Theory paradigm have rarely been investigated. We aimed to close this gap by analyzing the GAD-7 within a large sample of primary care patient...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Psychology
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1664-1078
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01713