Chinese SF-36 Health Survey: Translation, cultural adaptation, validation, and normalisation

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 259-263

  Li, L ^a   Wang, H M ^a   Shen, Y ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURVEY DESIGN;

ADAPTATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHINA; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL STATUS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHINA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

CHINA;

EID: 0037385003     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.57.4.259     Document Type: Article

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