Validity and reliability of the brief cope in carers of people with dementia: The LASER-AD study

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 196, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 838-843

  Cooper, Claudia ^a   Katona, Cornelius ^b   Livingston, Gill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carer; Coping; Dementia; Psychometric

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CAREGIVER BURDEN; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; CAREGIVER; CLASSIFICATION; COST OF ILLNESS; DEFENSE MECHANISM; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; OBJECT RELATION; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CAREGIVERS; COST OF ILLNESS; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; EMOTIONS; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 58149153080     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e31818b504c     Document Type: Article

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