Understanding distress in people with severe communication difficulties: Developing and assessing the Disability Distress Assessment Tool (DisDAT)

Journal of Intellectual Disability Research

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 277-292

  Regnard, Claud ^a,d   Reynolds, Joanna ^b   Watson, Bill ^b   Matthews, Dorothy ^c   Gibson, Lynn ^c   Clarke, Charlotte ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Northgate Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^d NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dementia; Distress; Intellectual disability; Pain assessment; Palliative care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SYMPTOM; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

CAREGIVERS; COMMUNICATION DISORDERS; COMPREHENSION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 33847652201     PISSN: 09642633     EISSN: 13652788     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2788.2006.00875.x     Document Type: Article

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