Reliability and validity of the Bangla version of WHOQOL-BREF in an adult population in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 493-498

  Tsutsumi, Atsuro ^a   Izutsu, Takashi ^b   Kato, Seika ^c   Islam, Md Akramul ^d   Yamada, Helena Sayuri ^e   Kato, Hiroshi ^a   Wakai, Susumu ^e  

^a Hyogo Institute for Traumatic Stress   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d RESEARCH AND EVALUATION DIVISION   (Bangladesh)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adult population; Bangladesh; Reliability; Validity; WHOQOL BREF

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LEPROSY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; BANGLADESH; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 33745932490     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: 14401819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2006.01537.x     Document Type: Article

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