Reliability of the Chinese version of the activities-specific Balance Confidence Scale

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 28, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 1287-1292

  Hsu, Priscilla C ^a,b   Miller, William C ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b GF STRONG REHABILITATION CENTRE   (Canada)

^c VANCOUVER COASTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Activities specific Balance Confidence; Balance confidence; Falls efficacy; Reliability

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITIES SPECIFIC BALANCE CONFIDENCE SCALE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CHINESE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMUNITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; LANGUAGE; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SELF CONCEPT; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; CHINA; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; POSTURAL BALANCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 33749560664     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: 14645165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09638280600638414     Document Type: Article

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