Measuring the quality of life in mild to very severe dementia: Testing the inter-rater and intra-rater reliability of the German version of the QUALIDEM

International Psychogeriatrics

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 825-836

  Dichter, Martin Nikolaus ^a,b   Schwab, Christian G G ^a,b   Meyer, Gabriele ^b,c   Bartholomeyczik, Sabine ^b   Dortmann, Olga ^a,b   Halek, Margareta ^a,b  

^a GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^c MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

dementia; Germany; long term care; nursing homes; proxy measurement; psychometric properties; quality of life; reliability

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CARE RELATIONSHIP; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HOME; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NEGATIVE AFFECT; NURSING ASSISTANT; PATIENT CARE; POSITIVE AFFECT; PREDICTIVE VALUE; QUALIDEM; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX; RATING SCALE; REGISTERED NURSE; RESTLESSNESS; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; VERY ELDERLY; CONSUMER ATTITUDE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOME FOR THE AGED; LONG TERM CARE; NURSING HOME; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROCEDURES; PROXY; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES;

AGED; CONSUMER BEHAVIOR; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERMANY; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; NURSING HOMES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROXY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84897575435     PISSN: 10416102     EISSN: 1741203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1041610214000052     Document Type: Article

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