Subjective caregiver burden: Validity of the 10-item short version of the Burden Scale for Family Caregivers BSFC-s

BMC Geriatrics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Graessel, Elmar ^a   Berth, Hendrik ^b   Lichte, Thomas ^c   Grau, Hannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

^c OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Discriminatory power; Factor analysis; Item difficulty; Reliability; Short version of the Burden Scale for Family Caregivers; Subjective caregiver burden; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; COST OF ILLNESS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CAREGIVERS; COST OF ILLNESS; HUMANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84897618659     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2318-14-23     Document Type: Article

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