Assessment of the reliability, validity, and responsiveness of a Spanish Asthma Quality of Life questionnaire

Journal of Asthma

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 513-521

  Perpiñá, Miguel ^a   Belloch, Amparo ^b   Marks, Guy B ^c   Martinez Moragón, Eva ^a   Pascual, Luis M ^b   Compte, Luis ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA FE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Asthma questionnaires; Asthma related quality of life; Health related quality of life; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; AUSTRALIA; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPAIN;

EID: 0031700538     PISSN: 02770903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02770909809071005     Document Type: Article

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