Verification of scale sub-domains in elderly patients with dementia: A confirmatory factor-analytic approach

American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 706-714

  Kastango, Kari B ^a,b   Kim, Yookyung ^a   Dew, Mary Amanda ^a   Mazumdar, Sati ^a   Mulsant, Benoit H ^a   Rosen, Jules ^a   Reynolds III, Charles F ^a   Pilkonis, Paul A ^a   Pollock, Bruce G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE MODEL; ELDERLY CARE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; VALIDATION PROCESS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; MENTAL DISEASE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; REPRODUCIBILITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEMENTIA; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0036847310     PISSN: 10647481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019442-200211000-00009     Document Type: Article

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