Hand injuries and cold sensitivity: Reliability and validity of cold sensitivity questionnaires

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 30, Issue 25, 2008, Pages 1920-1928

  Carlsson, Ingela ^a   Cederlund, Ragnhild ^a   Höglund, Peter ^b   Lundborg, Göran ^a   Rosén, Birgitta ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cold intolerance; Cold Intolerance Symptom Severity (CISS) questionnaire; Cold Sensitivity Severity (CSS) scale; Potential Work Exposure Scale (PWES); Reliability; Self administered questionnaires; Subjective assessment; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COLD INTOLERANCE SYMPTOM SEVERITY QUESTIONNAIRE; COLD SENSITIVITY; COLD SENSITIVITY SEVERITY SCALE; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISABILITY OF THE ARM SHOULDER AND HAND QUESTIONNAIRE; HAND INJURY; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; INTERNAL VALIDITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NOCICEPTION; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POTENTIAL WORK EXPOSURE SCALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT FORM 36; SWEDEN; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VIBRATION DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPUTATION, TRAUMATIC; COHORT STUDIES; HAND INJURIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDERS; SWEDEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 57549084602     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: 14645165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09638280701679705     Document Type: Article

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