Development of the social capital questionnaire in Greece

Research in Nursing and Health

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 217-225

  Kritsotakis, George ^a,b   Koutis, Antonis D ^b   Alegakis, Athanassios K ^b   Philalithis, Anastas E ^b  

^a TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Instrument development; Social capital

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNITY CARE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ETHNOLOGY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SAFETY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARD; TRUST; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNITY NETWORKS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SAFETY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIAL VALUES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TRANSLATING; TRUST; UNITED STATES;

EID: 46249133803     PISSN: 01606891     EISSN: 1098240X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nur.20250     Document Type: Article

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