Dementia knowledge assessment scale: Development and preliminary psychometric properties

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 63, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 2375-2381

  Annear, Michael J ^a   Toye, Christine M ^a,b   Eccleston, Claire E ^a   McInerney, Frances J ^a   Elliott, Kate Ellen J ^a   Tranter, Bruce K ^a   Hartley, Thomas ^a   Robinson, Andrew L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

dementia; DKAS; knowledge; reliability; validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; DELPHI STUDY; DEMENTIA; DEMENTIA KNOWLEDGE ASSESSMENT SCALE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHOMETRY; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; AUSTRALIA; KNOWLEDGE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84948402810     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.13707     Document Type: Article

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