Spanish version of the Rotterdam Symptom Check List: Cross-cultural adaptation and preliminary validity in a sample of terminal cancer patients

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 229-239

  Agra, Yolanda ^a,c   Badía, Xavier ^b  

^a IMSALUD   (Spain)

^b ISP   (Spain)

^c Unidad de Investigation Area 4   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CULTURAL FACTOR; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PROGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RELIABILITY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TERMINAL DISEASE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPAIN; TERMINALLY ILL; TRANSLATING;

EID: 0031804635     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1611(199805/06)7:3<229::AID-PON302>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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