Quality of Life for Young Adults With Mental Retardation During Transition

Mental Retardation

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Kraemer, Bonnie R ^a   McIntyre, Laura Lee ^a   Blacher, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; CLASSIFICATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CALIFORNIA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT, SUPPORTED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE;

EID: 0141433183     PISSN: 00476765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1352/0047-6765(2003)41<250:qolfya>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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40. Bonnie R. Kraemer, PhD, Visiting Research Associate (on leave from the University of New Mexico) (E-mail: bonniek@unm.edu.), Laura Lee McIntyre, MA, Doctoral Student, and Jan Blacher, PhD, Professor, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521-1028. Requests for reprints should be sent to the first or third author.