SF-36 health survey: Tests of data quality, scaling assumptions, and reliability in a community sample of Chinese Americans

Medical Care

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 542-548

  Chang, Doris F ^a   Chun, Chi Ah ^b   Takeuchi, David T ^c   Shen, Haikang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese Americans; Community; Functional status; Health assessment; SF 36

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; CHINA; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HONG KONG; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; TAIWAN; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASIAN AMERICANS; CALIFORNIA; CHINA; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HONG KONG; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TAIWAN;

EID: 0034183771     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005650-200005000-00010     Document Type: Article

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