Development of the Well-being questionnaire short-form in Japanese: The W-BQ12

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Riazi, Afsane ^a   Bradley, Clare ^a   Barendse, Shalleen ^a   Ishii, Hitoshi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b TENRI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A1C; INSULIN; ORAL ANTIDIABETIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTENT VALIDITY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIET THERAPY; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; INSULIN TREATMENT; JAPAN; LINGUISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE;

EID: 33748600654     PISSN: 14777525     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-4-40     Document Type: Article

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