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Pattern analysis of total item score and item response of the Kessler Screening Scale for Psychological Distress (K6) in a nationally representative sample of US adults

BACKGROUND: Several recent studies have shown that total scores on depressive symptom measures in a general population approximate an exponential pattern except for the lower end of the distribution. Furthermore, we confirmed that the exponential pattern is present for the individual item responses...

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Autores principales: Tomitaka, Shinichiro, Kawasaki, Yohei, Ide, Kazuki, Akutagawa, Maiko, Yamada, Hiroshi, Yutaka, Ono, Furukawa, Toshiaki A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5345827/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28289560
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2987