German translation and psychometric testing of the SF-36 Health Survey: Preliminary results from the IQOLA project

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 1995, Pages 1359-1366

  Bullinger, Monika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

German; health outcome assessment; psychometric testing; quality of life; SF 36; translation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BACK PAIN; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIGRAINE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PILOT PROJECTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TRANSLATIONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0028879433     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0277-9536(95)00115-N     Document Type: Article

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