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| Subject-caregiver response comparability on global health and functional status measures for African American, Puerto Rican, and Caucasian elders and their primary caregivers | | Author(s) | Renée H Lawrence, Sharon L Tennstedt, Susan L Almy |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological sciences and social sciences, vol 52B, no 2, March 1997 |
| Pages | pp S103-S111 |
| Keywords | Mobility ; Self care capacity ; Health [elderly] ; Attitude ; Evaluation ; Family care ; Ethnic groups ; White people ; Black people ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Ethnic differences in response comparability and bias were evaluated for older African American, Puerto Rican, and non-Hispanic white older people with some degree of disability, and their caregivers. Responses were compared for items assessing basic and instrumental activities of daily living (BADL, IADL), memory problems, confusion, and global health status. In general, for all ethnic groups, response comparability, based on kappa, was only poor to fair, with the lowest agreement found for items assessing memory problems and confusion. When disagreements occurred, caregivers tended to overestimate impairment relative to older subjects, regardless of ethnicity. However, there were very few significant differences between the response patterns of the caregivers of these different ethnic groups. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-971125246 A |
| Classmark | C4: CA: CC: DP: 4C: P6:SJ: TK: TKA: TKE: 7T |
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