Performance of an abbreviated version of the lubben social network scale among three European community-dwelling older adult populations

Gerontologist

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 503-513

  Lubben, James ^b   Blozik, Eva ^a,c   Gillmann, Gerhard ^c   Iliffe, Steve ^d   Von Kruse, Wolfgang Renteln ^e   Beck, John C ^f   Stuck, Andreas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^e ALBERTINEN KRANKENHAUS   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Health promotion; Intervention study; Scale development; Social isolation; Social networks

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CRITERION RELATED VALIDITY; EUROPEAN UNION; EVALUATION; GERIATRIC CARE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; LUBBEN SOCIAL NETWORK SCALE; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL NETWORK;

EID: 33748645535     PISSN: 00169013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geront/46.4.503     Document Type: Article

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