Canadian-French, German and UK versions of the child health questionnaire: Methodology and preliminary item scaling results

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 433-445

  Landgraf, J M ^a,b   Maunsell, E ^c   Nixon Speechley, K ^d   Bullinger, M ^e   Campbell, S ^f   Abetz, L ^b   Ware, J E ^b  

^a HealthAct   (United States)

^b TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Child Health Questionnaire; Multitrait analysis; Translation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD HEALTH CARE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; GERMANY; INSTRUMENT; METHODOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; STANDARDIZATION; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; CANADA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; GERMANY; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; TRANSLATIONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031877697     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008810004694     Document Type: Article

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