The Italian SF-36 Health Survey: Translation, validation and norming

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1025-1036

  Apolone, Giovanni ^a   Mosconi, Paola ^a  

^a Dipartimento di Oncologia   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cross cultural validation; Health related quality of life; Reliability; SF 36 Health Survey; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; ITALY; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; STANDARDIZATION;

CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; ITALY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRANSLATIONS;

EID: 0032212680     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-4356(98)00094-8     Document Type: Article

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