Psychiatry Research
Volume 150, Issue 1 , Pages 81-88 , 28 February 2007

Internal consistency of Waldrop Physical Anomaly Scale in schizophrenic patients

  • Valentin Hristov Akabaliev

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology, Higher Medical Institute Plovdiv, 15A, Vassil Aprilov Blvd., Plovdiv 4002, Bulgaria
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
    • ,
  • Stefan Todorov Sivkov

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Higher Medical Institute, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Received 7 February 2002 ,Revised 20 September 2002 ,Accepted 18 February 2003.

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PII: S0165-1781(05)00382-3

doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2003.02.002

Psychiatry Research
Volume 150, Issue 1 , Pages 81-88 , 28 February 2007

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