The caregiver well-being scale revisited

Health and Social Work

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 255-263

  Berg Weger, Marla ^a   Rubio, Doris McGartland ^b   Tebb, Susan Steiger ^b  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Caregivers; Reliability; Validity; Well being

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MARRIAGE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESEARCH; SOCIAL WORK;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; CAREGIVERS; DATA COLLECTION; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH; SOCIAL WORK; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0034330439     PISSN: 03607283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hsw/25.4.255     Document Type: Article

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