A qualitative investigation of school-aged children's answers to items from a generic quality of life measure

Child: Care, Health and Development

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 83-89

  Cremeens, Joanne ^a   Eiser, C ^b   Blades, M ^b  

^a ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children; Cognitive interviewing; Health assessment; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; APTITUDE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECORDING; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; UNITED KINGDOM;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 33845687300     PISSN: 03051862     EISSN: 13652214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2214.2006.00665.x     Document Type: Article

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