Metric properties of the utrecht scale for evaluation of rehabilitation-participation (user-participation) in persons with spinal cord injury living in Switzerland

Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 165-174

  Mader, Luzius ^a,b   Post, Marcel W M ^a,c,d   Ballert, Carolina S ^a,b   Michel, Gisela ^b   Stucki, Gerold ^a,b   Brinkhof, Martin W G ^a,b  

^a SWISS PARAPLEGIC RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUCERNE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Disability evaluation; Psychometrics; Rasch analysis; Social participation; Spinal cord injury; Validation studies

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PATIENT-REPORTED OUTCOME; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SWITZERLAND;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT REPORTED OUTCOME MEASURES; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84959374816     PISSN: 16501977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/16501977-2010     Document Type: Article

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