Reliability of the new freezing of gait questionnaire: Agreement between patients with Parkinson's disease and their carers

Gait and Posture

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 459-463

  Nieuwboer, Alice ^a   Rochester, Lynn ^b   Herman, Talia ^c   Vandenberghe, Wim ^d   Emil, George Ehab ^a   Thomaes, Tom ^a   Giladi, Nir ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d KU LEUVEN UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Freezing; Gait; Parkinson's disease; Reliability; Validity

Indexed keywords

LEVODOPA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; GAIT FREEZING; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIDEORECORDING;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CAREGIVERS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARKINSON DISEASE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 70349388930     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2009.07.108     Document Type: Article

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