Pictorial and verbal category-ratio scales for effort estimation in children

Child: Care, Health and Development

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 35-43

  Marinov, B ^a   Mandadjieva, S ^a   Kostianev, S ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF PLOVDIV   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Borg scale; Children; Effort perception; Pictorial CERT; Repeatability

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EXERCISE INTENSITY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GAS EXCHANGE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUNG MINUTE VOLUME; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

AUDIOVISUAL AIDS; CHILD; EXERCISE TEST; EXERTION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PERCEPTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 37349121901     PISSN: 03051862     EISSN: 13652214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2214.2007.00767.x     Document Type: Article

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