What do people include when they self-rate their health? Differential associations according to health status in community-dwelling older adults

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1573-1580

  Schüz, Benjamin ^a   Wurm, Susanne ^a   Schöllgen, Ina ^b   Tesch Römer, Clemens ^a  

^a GERMAN CENTRE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Health status; Latent moderated structural equations; Older people; Self rated health

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROL; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; GERMANY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEPRESSION; GERMANY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF REPORT;

EID: 84355161811     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11136-011-9909-4     Document Type: Article

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