The Elder Image Scale: A Method for Indexing History and Emotion in Family Caregiving

Journal of Nursing Measurement

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 23-47

  Phillips, Linda R ^a   Brewer, Barbara B ^a   Torres De Ardon, Esperanza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAREGIVER; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EMOTION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FAMILY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOMETRY; SELF CONCEPT; SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL METHOD; STANDARD; VALIDATION STUDY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAREGIVERS; EMOTIONS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FAMILY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; SELF CONCEPT; SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL;

EID: 0035291040     PISSN: 10613749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1891/1061-3749.9.1.23     Document Type: Article

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