Cultural Adequecy of the Care Dependency Scale for Older Persons in Egypt: A Delphi Study

Journal of Transcultural Nursing

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 51-60

  Boggatz, Thomas ^a   Farid, Tamer ^b   Mohammedin, Ahmed ^b   Dijkstra, Ate ^c   Lohrmann, Christa ^d   Dassen, Theo ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Saint Fatima Square Heliopolis   (Egypt)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Arabic translation; care dependency; Delphi study; Egypt; older people

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARAB; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DELPHI STUDY; EGYPT; ELDERLY CARE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEMANTICS; VALIDATION STUDY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; ARABS; DELPHI TECHNIQUE; EGYPT; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEMANTICS; TRANSLATING;

EID: 59749094380     PISSN: 10436596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1043659608325851     Document Type: Article

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