A new scale to measure family members' perception of community health care services for persons with Huntington disease

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 470-475

  Sousa, Valmi D ^a   Williams, Janet K ^b   Barnette, Jack J ^c   Reed, David A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COLLEGE OF NURSING   (United States)

^c Global Health and Health Disparities   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Caregivers; Factor analysis; Huntington disease; Psychometrics; Scale development

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; KNOWLEDGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRY; RELIABILITY; VALIDITY; VARIMAX ROTATION;

ADULT; AGED; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 77952935260     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2009.01144.x     Document Type: Article

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