Translation, validation, and norming of the Dutch language version of the SF-36 Health Survey in community and chronic disease populations

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1055-1068

  Aaronson, Neil K ^a   Muller, Martin ^a   Cohen, Peter D A ^b   Essink Bot, Marie Louise ^c   Fekkes, Minne ^d   Sanderman, Robbert ^e   Sprangers, Mirjam A G ^f   Te Velde, Adrienne ^a   Verrips, Erik ^d  

^a NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d TNO   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^f ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cross cultural research; Health status assessment; Quality of life; Questionnaires; Reliability; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIGRAINE; MINORITY GROUP; NETHERLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRANSLATIONS;

EID: 0032211654     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-4356(98)00097-3     Document Type: Article

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