Fitness and health-related quality of life dimensions in community-dwelling middle aged and older adults

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 9, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Olivares, Pedro R ^a   Gusi, Narcis ^a   Prieto, Josue ^a   Hernandez Mocholi, Miguel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGILITY; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY MASS; COMMUNITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENDURANCE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FITNESS; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN; PERCEPTION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SMOKING; WALKING; ANXIETY DISORDER; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SURVEY; INSTRUMENTATION; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PHYSICAL FITNESS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84055178156     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-9-117     Document Type: Article

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