Development of an essential tremor embarrassment assessment

Parkinsonism and Related Disorders

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 661-665

  Traub, Rebecca E ^a   Gerbin, Marina ^b   Mullaney, Mary M ^b   Louis, Elan D ^a,b,c  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Clinical; Embarrassment; Epidemiology; Essential tremor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CENTER FOR EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES DEPRESSION SCALE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; EMBARASSMENT; EMOTION; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; ESSENTIAL TREMOR EMBARASSMENT ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; TREMOR DISABILITY QUESTIONNAIRE; VALIDITY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATA COLLECTION; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY EVALUATION; EMOTIONS; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF-ASSESSMENT; TELEPHONE;

EID: 78649750838     PISSN: 13538020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2010.08.017     Document Type: Article

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