Disease-specific quality of life: Is it one construct?

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 135-142

  De Boer, A G E M ^a   Spruijt, R J ^b   Sprangers, M A G ^a   De Haes, J C J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Inflammatory bowel disease; Parkinson's disease; Quality of life; Structural equation modelling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENTERITIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MODEL; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PARKINSON DISEASE; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0031932168     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008805409794     Document Type: Article

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