'Specific' scale compared with 'generic' scale: A double measurement of the quality of life in a French community sample of obese subjects

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 445-450

  Le Pen, Claude ^a   Lévy, Emile ^a   Loos, Frédéric ^b   Banzet, Marie Noelle ^c   Basdevant, Arnaud ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

^b SOFRES   (France)

^c Ardix Médical   (France)

^d HÔTEL DIEU   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRANCE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; OBESITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE;

EID: 0031852463     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.52.7.445     Document Type: Article

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