Further psychometric testing of the dutch care dependency scale on two different patient groups

International Journal of Nursing Practice

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 305-314

  Dijkstra, Ate ^a   Tiesinga, Lucas J ^a   Goossen, William T F ^b   Dassen, Theo W N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Acquest Consultancy BV   (Netherlands)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Care Dependency Scale; Dependency measures; Psychometrics; Residential home; Somatic nursing home

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERONTOPSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NETHERLANDS; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; NURSING HOME; OBSERVER VARIATION; PSYCHOMETRY; STANDARD; VALIDATION STUDY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMANS; MALE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NETHERLANDS; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; NURSING HOMES; OBSERVER VARIATION; PSYCHOMETRICS;

EID: 0036884559     PISSN: 13227114     EISSN: 1440172X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-172X.2002.00384.x     Document Type: Article

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