The value of the qualitative method for adaptation of a disease-specific quality of life assessment instrument: The case of the Rheumatoid Arthritis Quality of Life Scale (RAQoL) in Estonia

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Tammaru, Marika ^a   Strömpl, Judit ^a   Maimets, Kadri ^a   Hanson, Ele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COPING BEHAVIOR; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONALITY; ESTONIA; FAMILY LIFE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE NEED; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; IMMOBILIZATION; INTERVIEW; JOB PERFORMANCE; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MONEY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SELF CARE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIOECONOMICS; THEORY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; ESTONIA; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF EFFICACY; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 16344376179     PISSN: 14777525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-2-69     Document Type: Article

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