Evaluation of the Greek version of the Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Functional Index: Reliability, validity, and factor analysis

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 571-576

  Chatzitheodorou, Dimitris ^a,c   Kabitsis, Chris ^a   Papadopoulos, Nikolaos G ^b   Galanopoulou, Vasiliki ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b PAPAGEORGIOU GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Arthritis; Rehabilitation; Spine

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; ARTICLE; BATH ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS FUNCTIONAL INDEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GREECE; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; PUBLICATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; AGED; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPONDYLITIS, ANKYLOSING; TRANSLATING;

EID: 34648836783     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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