Validity and reliability of the Arabic version of Activities of Daily Living (ADL)

BMC Geriatrics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Nasser, Ramzi ^a   Doumit, Jacqueline ^b  

^a QATAR UNIVERSITY   (Qatar)

^b NOTRE DAME UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARAB; ARTICLE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEEDING; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; LEBANON; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NURSING HOME; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; BRIEF PSYCHIATRIC RATING SCALE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; LANGUAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRIEF PSYCHIATRIC RATING SCALE; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILINGUALISM; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 65349099978     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2318-9-11     Document Type: Article

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