ADL assessment of nondisabled Turkish children with the WeeFIM instrument

American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 176-182

  Aybay, Canan ^a,c   Erkin, Gulten ^a   Elhan, Atilla H ^b   Sirzai, Hulya ^a   Ozel, Sumru ^a  

^a ANKARA PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND REHABILITATION EDUCATION AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Functional Assessment; Rasch Analysis; Reliability; Validity; WeeFIM

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLADDER FUNCTION; CHILD; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; CULTURAL FACTOR; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EATING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT INVENTORY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT; INTERNAL VALIDITY; INTESTINE FUNCTION; LICENCE; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RATING SCALE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TURKEY;

EID: 33847195684     PISSN: 08949115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PHM.0b013e31802b8f8d     Document Type: Article

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