Gender similarity in low agreement between written and video ISAAC ashtma questionnaires

Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease - Pulmonary Series

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 184-188

  Gharagozlou, Mohammad ^a   Khalili, S ^b   Hallajmofrad, M ^b   Mohammadzadeh, R ^b   Mousavi, G ^b   Golkari, H ^c  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b KASHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Asthma; ISAAC; Prevalence; Video questionnaires; Written questionnaires

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IRAN; KAPPA STATISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX DIFFERENCE; VIDEORECORDING; WHEEZING; WRITTEN LANGUAGE;

EID: 33947421231     PISSN: 11220643     EISSN: 2465101X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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