Psychiatry Research
Volume 135, Issue 3 , Pages 217-228 , 30 June 2005

Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale Expanded Version: How do new items affect factor structure?

  • Dawn Velligan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, Mail Stop 7792, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229-3900, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 210 567 5508; fax: +1 210 567 1291.
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  • Thomas Prihoda

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, Mail Stop 7792, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229-3900, USA
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  • Ellen Dennehy

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, TX, USA
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  • Melanie Biggs

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, TX, USA
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  • Kathy Shores-Wilson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, TX, USA
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  • M. Lynn Crismon

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
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  • A. John Rush

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, TX, USA
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  • Alexander Miller

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, Mail Stop 7792, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229-3900, USA
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  • Trisha Suppes

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, TX, USA
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  • Madhukar Trivedi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, TX, USA
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  • T. Michael Kashner

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, TX, USA
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  • Bradley Witte

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, TX, USA
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  • Marcia Toprac

      Affiliations

    • Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, Austin, TX, USA
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  • Thomas Carmody

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, TX, USA
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  • John Chiles

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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  • Stephen Shon

      Affiliations

    • Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, Austin, TX, USA

Received 17 July 2004 ,Revised 14 April 2005 ,Accepted 13 May 2005.

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doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2005.05.001

Psychiatry Research
Volume 135, Issue 3 , Pages 217-228 , 30 June 2005

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