Family caregivers' motives for helping scale derived from motivation-to-help theory

Journal of Nursing Measurement

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 239-256

  Smith, Carol E ^a   Kleinbeck, Susan V M ^a   Boyle, Diane ^a   Kochinda, Chiemi ^b   Parker, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HOME CARE; HUMAN; MOTIVATION; NURSING ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; VALIDATION STUDY;

CAREGIVERS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HOME NURSING; HUMANS; MOTIVATION; NURSING ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0035755330     PISSN: 10613749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1891/1061-3749.9.3.239     Document Type: Article

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