Assesing fear of failing: Can a short version of the activities-specific balance confidence scale be useful?

Movement Disorders

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2101-2105

  Peretz, Chava ^a   Herman, Talia ^a   Hausdorff, Jeffrey M ^a,b   Giladi, Nir ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

ABC 16; ABC 6; Fear of failing; Higher level gait disorders; Parkinson's disease

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FALLING; FEAR; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; VALIDATION PROCESS; VALIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; MENTAL FUNCTION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEAR; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PARKINSON DISEASE; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33846412927     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.21113     Document Type: Article

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