Determining the basic psychometric properties of the Greek KDQOL-SF™

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1967-1975

  Kontodimopoulos, Nick ^a   Niakas, Dimitris ^a  

^a HELLENIC OPEN UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Dialysis; Greece; Health related quality of life; KDQOL SF ; Reliability; SF 36; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DIALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY DISEASE QUALITY OF LIFE SHORT FORM; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY;

AGED; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 24644469247     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11136-005-3868-6     Document Type: Article

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