Issues, challenges, and solutions in translating study instruments

Evaluation Review

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 153-165

  Weeks, Amanda ^a   Swerissen, Hal ^a   Belfrage, John ^b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Inner East Community Health Centre ^*

Author keywords

Instrumentation; Research; Translation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CULTURAL FACTOR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; METHODOLOGY; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; TRANSLATING;

EID: 34247640739     PISSN: 0193841X     EISSN: 15523926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0193841X06294184     Document Type: Article

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