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Validity of a Short Functioning Test (FAST) in Brazilian Outpatients with Bipolar Disorder

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: As the use of functioning outcomes is increasingly being advocated in multinational clinical trials and comparative studies, making available instruments with known validity and reliability in several languages is required. Here we present data on the Portuguese validation of the Functioning Assessment Short Test (FAST), which was explicitly designed to gauge functioning dimensions empirically linked to bipolar disorder. METHODS: …

Authors

Cacilhas AA; da Silva Magalhães PV; Ceresér KM; Walz JC; Weyne F; Rosa AR; Vieta E; Kapczinski F

Journal

Value in Health, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 624–627

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

6 2009

DOI

10.1111/j.1524-4733.2008.00481.x

ISSN

1098-3015