Metric properties of the Spanish version of the Lake Louise Acute Mountain Sickness Questionnaire;Propiedades métricas de la versión española del Cuestionario de Mal de Altura del Lago Louise

Neurologia

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 337-342

  Carod Artal, F J ^a   Ezpeleta Echavarri D ^b   Guerrero Peral, A L ^c  

^a HOSPITAL VIRGEN DE LA LUZ   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSITARIO DE VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Internal consistency; Lake Louise Questionnaire; Metric attributes; Migraine; Mountain sickness; Validity

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BUILDING; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LAKE LOUISE ACUTE MOUNTAIN SICKNESS QUESTIONNAIRE; MALE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; TREMOR;

ALTITUDE SICKNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSCIENCES; PHYSICIANS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPAIN;

EID: 79959912108     PISSN: 02134853     EISSN: 15781968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nrl.2010.12.014     Document Type: Article

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