Assessment of factors influencing morale in the elderly

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Loke, Seng Cheong ^a   Abdullah, Siti S ^a   Chai, Sen Tyng ^a   Hamid, Tengku A ^a   Yahaya, Nurizan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; AGITATION; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO AGING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DUKE SOCIAL SUPPORT SCALE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LUBBEN SOCIAL NETWORK SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL OUTCOMES STUDY SOCIAL SUPPORT SURVEY; MORALITY; PERSONALITY; PHILADELPHIA GERIATRIC MORALE SCALE; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; POPULATION RISK; RELIGION; REVISED INTRINSIC EXTRINSIC RELIGIOUS ORIENTATION SCALE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TEN ITEM PERSONALITY INVENTORY; WHO DISABILITY SCORE II; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DISABLED PERSON; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABLED PERSONS; HUMANS; MORALE; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RELIGION; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 79551568363     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016490     Document Type: Article

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