Short form of the dizziness handicap inventory: Construction and validation through Rasch analysis

American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 233-241

  Tesio, Luigi ^a   Alpini, Dario ^b   Cesarani, Antonio ^c   Perucca, Laura ^a,d  

^a IRCCS   (Italy)

^b Dizziness Rehabilitation Unit   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d Data Evaluation Unit   (Italy)

Author keywords

Balance; Dizziness; Functional Assessment; Measurement; Psychometrics; Rasch Analysis

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; EYE MOVEMENTS; HANDICAPPED PERSONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; STATISTICAL METHODS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

CRANIOCORPOGRAPHY; DIZZINESS HANDICAP INVENTORY; NYSTAGMOGRAPHY; RASCH ANALYSIS; SOVRAAORTIC DOPPLER SONOGRAPHY; STATIC POSTUROGRAPHY;

FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NYSTAGMOGRAPHY; PSYCHOMETRY; STABILOGRAPHY; VERTIGO;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DISABLED PERSONS; DIZZINESS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0032963565     PISSN: 08949115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002060-199905000-00009     Document Type: Article

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