The equivalence of English and Chinese SF-36 versions in bilingual Singapore Chinese

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 495-503

  Thumboo, Julian ^a   Fong, Kok Yong ^a   Chan, Siew Pang ^b   Machin, David ^c,d   Feng, Pao Hsii ^e   Thio, Szu Tien ^a   Boey, Mee Leng ^f  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Singapore)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^e Department of Rheumatology and Immunology ^*  (Singapore)

^f MOUNT ELIZABETH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Asia; Mongoloid race; Multilingualism; Quality of life; Reproducibility of results; Singapore

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIA; CHINESE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SINGAPORE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHINA; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILINGUALISM; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SINGAPORE;

EID: 0036082194     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1015680029998     Document Type: Article

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