Cross-cultural adaptation of the Tilburg Frailty Indicator (TFI) for use in the Brazilian population;Adaptação transcultural do instrumento Tilburg Frailty Indicator (TFI) para a população brasileira

Cadernos de Saude Publica

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1795-1801

  Santiago, Lívia Maria ^a,b   Luz, Laércio Lima ^a   Mattos, Inês Echenique ^a   Gobbens, Robbert J J ^c  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c ROTTERDAM UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aged; Evaluation; Frailty

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; BRAZIL; COMPREHENSION; CULTURAL FACTOR; EVALUATION; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NOTE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLICATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEMANTICS; STANDARD; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAZIL; COMPREHENSION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEMANTICS; TRANSLATIONS;

EID: 84867160215     PISSN: 0102311X     EISSN: 16784464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0102-311X2012000900018     Document Type: Note

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