Construction of the Mandarin version of the International Prostate Symptom Score inventory in assessing lower urinary tract symptoms in a Malaysian population

International Journal of Urology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 39-45

  Quek, Kia Fatt ^a   Chua, Chong Beng ^a   Razack, Azad Hassan ^a   Low, Wah Yun ^a   Loh, Chit Sin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MALAYA MEDICAL CENTRE   (Malaysia)

^b Sunway/Gleneagles Intan Med Ctr   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Cronbach's alpha; Internal consistency; Intraclass correlation coefficient; Mandarin International Prostate Symptom Score; Test retest reliability and validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL PROSTATE SYMPTOM SCORE; LANGUAGE; LOWER URINARY TRACT SYMPTOM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAYSIA; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SYMPTOM; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE ARTS; MALAYSIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION OF PROSTATE;

EID: 14744292080     PISSN: 09198172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-2042.2004.00988.x     Document Type: Article

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