The Persian version of the Berg Balance Scale: Inter and intra-rater reliability and construct validity in elderly adults

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 34, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 1695-1698

  Salavati, Mahyar ^a   Negahban, Hossein ^b   Mazaheri, Masood ^c   Soleimanifar, Manijeh ^a   Hadadi, Mohammad ^d   Sefiddashti, Leyla ^c   Hassan Zahraee, Maryam ^c   Davatgaran, Keyvan ^a   Feizi, Awat ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND REHABILITATION SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b AHVAZ JUNDISHAPUR UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Berg Balance Scale; Persian version; Reliability; Validity

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; IRAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; VIDEORECORDING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; IRAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; POSTURAL BALANCE; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TRANSLATING; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 84867158014     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: 14645165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09638288.2012.660604     Document Type: Article

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