Internal consistency and factor analysis of the Dutch version of the Dizziness Handicap Inventory

Acta Oto-Laryngologica

Volumn 127, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 788-795

  Vereeck, L ^a,b   Truijen, S ^a   Wuyts, F L ^b   Van De Heyning, P H ^b,c  

^a Hogeschool Antwerpen   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Assessment; Disability; Dizziness; Handicap; Motion sensitivity; Vestibular rehabilitation; Vestibulo ocular reflex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALORIC VESTIBULAR TEST; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; DIZZINESS; DIZZINESS HANDICAP INVENTORY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VESTIBULAR TEST;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BELGIUM; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DIZZINESS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFLEX, VESTIBULO-OCULAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 34548337338     PISSN: 00016489     EISSN: 16512553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00016480601075464     Document Type: Article

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