The environmental cleanliness and clutter scale (ECCS)

International Psychogeriatrics

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1041-1050

  Halliday, Graeme ^a   Snowdon, John ^b  

^a Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aged; Diogenes syndrome; Hoarding; Housing; Mental disorder; Rating scale; Reliability; Squalor

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; DEMENTIA; ENVIRONMENTAL CLEANLINESS AND CLUTTER SCALE; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GERONTOPSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; KITCHEN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ODOR; PSYCHOSIS; RATING SCALE; SANITATION; SATISFACTION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; VALIDITY;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DOCUMENTATION; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HOUSING FOR THE ELDERLY; HUMANS; HYGIENE; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; NEW SOUTH WALES; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; PUBLIC HEALTH; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SYNDROME;

EID: 75149122772     PISSN: 10416102     EISSN: 1741203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1041610209990135     Document Type: Article

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