Construct validation of the Language Independent Functional Evaluation versus the Barthel Index in a Mongolian community

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 319-325

  Loar, Jesse ^a   Haig, Andrew J ^a   Yamakawa, Karen S J ^a   Baljinnyam, Avirmed ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Health Sciences University   (Mongolia)

Author keywords

disability; Epidemiology; global health; language; Mongolia; rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DISABILITY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONGOLIA; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL CLASS; URBAN POPULATION; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DISABILITY EVALUATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE ARTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONGOLIA; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL CLASS; URBAN POPULATION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 78650730340     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: 14645165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09638288.2010.490870     Document Type: Article

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