World Health Organization Quality of Life Assessment (WHOQOL): Development and general psychometric properties

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1569-1585

  Power, M ^a   Kuyken, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHODOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ARTICLE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EVALUATION STUDIES; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PILOT PROJECTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRANSLATIONS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0032526912     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(98)00009-4     Document Type: Article

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