Cross-cultural validation of an international questionnaire, the General Measure of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy scale (FACT-G), for Japanese

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 701-709

  Fumimoto, H ^a,b   Kobayashi, K ^a,b   Chang, C H ^c   Eremenco, S ^c   Fujiki, Y ^d   Uemura, S ^e   Ohashi, Y ^e   Kudoh, S ^a,b  

^a SAITAMA CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^b NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^c Research and Education   (United States)

^d EPS Corporation   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cross cultural comparison; Japanese; Lung carcinoma; Quality of life; Questionnaire

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ACCURACY; ADAPTATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER THERAPY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL FACTOR; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FAMILY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GENERAL MEASURE OF THE FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT OF CANCER THERAPY SCALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERFORMANCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; VALIDATION PROCESS; WELLBEING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE;

EID: 0035709810     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1013851216181     Document Type: Article

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