The conceptual validity and appropriateness of using health-related quality of life measures with minority ethnic groups

Ethnicity and Health

Volumn 4, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 51-63

  Staniszewska, S ^a,c   Ahmed, L ^b   Jenkinson, C ^b  

^a ROYAL COLLEGE OF NURSING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c RADCLIFFE INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethnicity; Indian; Quality of life; Questionnaires; Short Form 36 (SF 36)

Indexed keywords

ETHNICITY; HEALTH STATUS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNIC GROUP; HEALTH STATUS; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; INDIAN; PERCEPTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0032832386     PISSN: 13557858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13557859998191     Document Type: Article

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