Children proxies' quality-of-life agreement depended on the country using the European KIDSCREEN-52 questionnaire

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 469.e1-469.e13

  Robitail, Stéphane ^a   Siméoni, Marie Claude ^a   Ravens Sieberer, Ulricke ^b   Bruil, Janet ^c   Auquier, Pascal ^a  

^a School of Medicine   (France)

^b ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Agreement; Children; Europe; Proxy; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CUSTODY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KIDSCREEN 52 QUESTIONNAIRE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT;

EID: 34047263567     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2006.09.007     Document Type: Article

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