Translation, cultural adaptation, cross-validation of the Turkish diabetes quality-of-life (DQOL) measure

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 873-879

  Yildirim, Aysegul ^b   Akinci, Fevzi ^a   Gozu, Hulya ^b   Sargin, Haluk ^b   Orbay, Ekrem ^b   Sargin, Mehmet ^b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DR LUTFI KIRDAR KARTAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Diabetes quality of life; Quality of life; Validation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENDOCRINOLOGY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SATISFACTION; SCREENING; SOCIAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

COMMUNICATION; CULTURE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; TRANSLATIONS; TURKEY;

EID: 34247504698     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11136-007-9172-x     Document Type: Article

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