Reproducibility of the Caregiver Strain Index and the Caregiver Reaction Assessment in partners of stroke patients living in the Dutch community

Clinical Rehabilitation

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1050-1055

  Post, Marcel W M ^a,b   Festen, Helma ^a   van de Port, Ingrid G ^a,b   Visser Meily, Johanna M A ^a,b  

^a Rehabilitation Centre De Hoogstraat   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CAREGIVER BURDEN; CAREGIVER REACTION ASSESSMENT; CAREGIVER STRAIN INDEX; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONVENIENCE SAMPLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FAMILY ATTITUDE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KAPPA STATISTICS; MALE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; NETHERLANDS ANTILLES; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF ESTEEM; SELF REPORT; SPOUSE; STROKE PATIENT;

CAREGIVERS; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPOUSES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STROKE;

EID: 36749070508     PISSN: 02692155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269215507079140     Document Type: Article

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