Schizophrenia Research
Volume 75, Issue 1 , Pages 107-117 , 1 June 2005

Factor solution of the BPRS-expanded version in schizophrenic outpatients living in five European countries

  • Mirella Ruggeri

      Affiliations

    • Dipartimento di Medicina e Sanità Pubblica, Sezione di Psichiatria, e Psicologie Clinice, Università di Verona, Ospedale Policlinico, Piazzale Scuro, 10, 37134 Verona, Italy
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +39 45 8074441; fax: +39 45 585871.
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  • Maarten Koeter

      Affiliations

    • Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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  • Aart Schene

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, The Netherlands
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  • Chiara Bonetto

      Affiliations

    • Dipartimento di Medicina e Sanità Pubblica, Sezione di Psichiatria, e Psicologie Clinice, Università di Verona, Ospedale Policlinico, Piazzale Scuro, 10, 37134 Verona, Italy
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  • Josè Luis Vàzquez-Barquero

      Affiliations

    • Clinical and Social Psychiatric Research Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain
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  • Thomas Becker

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry II, University of Ulm, Germany
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  • Martin Knapp

      Affiliations

    • Centre for the Economics of Mental Health, Health Services Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London, UK
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  • Helle Charlotte Knudsen

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark
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  • Michele Tansella

      Affiliations

    • Dipartimento di Medicina e Sanità Pubblica, Sezione di Psichiatria, e Psicologie Clinice, Università di Verona, Ospedale Policlinico, Piazzale Scuro, 10, 37134 Verona, Italy
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  • Graham Thornicroft

      Affiliations

    • Health Services Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London, UK
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  • the EPSILON Study Group

Received 26 May 2004 ,Accepted 28 May 2004.

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doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2004.05.017

Schizophrenia Research
Volume 75, Issue 1 , Pages 107-117 , 1 June 2005

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