Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 47, Issue 1 , Pages 48-53 , January 2006

Interrater reliability and clinical efficacy of Children's Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale in an outpatient setting

This study was presented in the 12th Turkish National Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Congress as poster presentation.

  • A. Guldeniz Yucelen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA. Tel.: +1 732 220 0105; fax: +1 732 932 6872.
    • ,
  • Ayse Rodopman-Arman

      Affiliations

    • Division of Child Psychiatry, Marmara University Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
    • ,
  • Volkan Topcuoglu

      Affiliations

    • Division of Psychiatry, Marmara University Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
    • ,
  • M. Yanki Yazgan

      Affiliations

    • Division of Child Psychiatry, Marmara University Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
    • ,
  • Guler Fisek

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey

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doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2005.04.005

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 47, Issue 1 , Pages 48-53 , January 2006

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