Cross-cultural adaptation and reliability testing of the Tilburg frailty indicator for optimizing care of polish patients with frailty syndrome

Clinical Interventions in Aging

Volumn 9, Issue , 2014, Pages 997-1001

  Uchmanowicz, Izabella ^a   Jankowska Polańska, Beata ^a   Łoboz Rudnicka, Maria ^b   Manulik, Stanisław ^c   Łoboz Grudzień, Krystyna ^a,b   Gobbens, Robbert J J ^d  

^a WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b T Marciniak Lower Silesia Specialist Hospital Wroclaw   (Poland)

^c Primary Care Practice   (Poland)

^d ROTTERDAM UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aging; Internal consistency; Older individuals; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BALANCE IMPAIRMENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; CULTURAL FACTOR; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FRAILTY SYNDROME; GERIATRIC DISORDER; HAND STRENGTH; HEARING DISORDER; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLAND; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; TILBURG FRAILTY INDICATOR; VALIDITY; VISUAL DISORDER; WALKING DIFFICULTY; WEIGHT REDUCTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISABILITY; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARDS; TRANSCULTURAL CARE; TRANSLATING (LANGUAGE); VALIDATION STUDY;

AGED; AGING; CULTURALLY COMPETENT CARE; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLAND; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRANSLATING;

EID: 84903382825     PISSN: 11769092     EISSN: 11781998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/CIA.S64853     Document Type: Article

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