Validation of the Burden Index of Caregivers (BIC), a multidimensional short care burden scale from Japan

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Miyashita, Mitsunori ^a   Yamaguchi, Aki ^a   Kayama, Mami ^b   Narita, Yugo ^c   Kawada, Norikazu ^d   Akiyama, Miki ^a   Hagiwara, Akiko ^e   Suzukamo, Yoshimi ^f,h   Fukuhara, Shunichi ^g,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b ST LUKE'S INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Matsusaka Chuo General Hospital   (Japan)

^e Fukuyama Transporting Shibuya Longevity Health Foundation   (Japan)

^f TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^g KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h Institute for Health Outcomes and Process Evaluation Research   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER BURDEN; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARKINSON DISEASE; POSTAL MAIL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SHY DRAGER SYNDROME; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VALIDATION STUDY; VALIDITY;

AGED; CAREGIVERS; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; HOME NURSING; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPOUSES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STROKE;

EID: 33749123111     PISSN: 14777525     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-4-52     Document Type: Article

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