Implications for Quality of Life Research in Latino Populations

Journal of Transcultural Nursing

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 136-141

  Tann, Sheila S ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cross cultural validity; Latino; quality of life; structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HISPANIC; INSTRUMENT; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 17144391522     PISSN: 10436596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1043659604273552     Document Type: Article

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