Development and evaluation of the cane use cognitive mediator instrument

Nursing Research

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 269-275

  Edwards, Nancy ^b   Aminzadeh, Faranak ^a,b,c   Plotnikoff, Ronald ^b  

^a Ottawa Regional Geriatric Assessment Program   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c Queensway Carleton Hospital   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cane use; Instrument development; Theory of Planned Behavior

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS; WALKING AID;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CANES; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0033190922     PISSN: 00296562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006199-199909000-00007     Document Type: Article

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