Visual disability variables. I: The importance and difficulty of activity goals for a sample of low-vision patients

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 946-953

  Massof, Robert W ^a,b   Hsu, Cynthia T ^a   Baker, Frank H ^a   Barnett, G David ^a   Park, William L ^a   Deremeik, James T ^a   Rainey, Carol ^a   Epstein, Cathy ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Lions Vision Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Questionnaires; Rehabilitation; Vision, low

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SELF EVALUATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TELEPHONE; VALIDATION PROCESS; VISION; VISUAL DISORDER;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; TELEPHONE; VISION, LOW;

EID: 18844377163     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2004.09.016     Document Type: Article

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