Validation of the Spanish Life Support Preference Questionnaire (LSPQ)

Journal of Nursing Scholarship

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 33-36

  Froman, Robin D ^a,b   Owen, Steven V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^b University of Texas Medical Branch School of Nursing   (United States)

Author keywords

Hispanic; Instrumentation; Life support preferences

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LIFE SUPPORT PREFERENCE QUESTIONNAIRE; LONG TERM CARE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION PROCESS; ADOLESCENT; AGED; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; DECISION MAKING; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; LIVING WILL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DECISION MAKING; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0038348650     PISSN: 15276546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1547-5069.2003.00033.x     Document Type: Article

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