Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 50, Issue 5 , Pages 463-470 , September 2009

Factor structure and diagnostic efficiency of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, criteria for avoidant personality disorder in Hispanic men and women with substance use disorders

  • Daniel F. Becker

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Mills-Peninsula Medical Center, 1501 Trousdale Dr, Burlingame, CA 94010, USA.
    • ,
  • Luis Miguel Añez

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
    • ,
  • Manuel Paris

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
    • ,
  • Luis Bedregal

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
    • ,
  • Carlos M. Grilo

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA

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 Presented in part at the 161st Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Washington, DC, May 3-8, 2008.

PII: S0010-440X(08)00166-1

doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2008.10.002

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 50, Issue 5 , Pages 463-470 , September 2009

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