Validation of a French-language version of the MOS 36-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) in young healthy adults

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 1995, Pages 1051-1060

  Perneger, Thomas V ^a   Leplège, Alain ^b   Etter, Jean François ^a   Rougemont, André ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Health status indicators; Quality of life; Questionnaires; Translations; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SWITZERLAND;

ADULT; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0029015124     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0895-4356(94)00227-H     Document Type: Article

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