Development and psychometric testing of the Visual Analogue Scale for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (VAS-IBS)

BMC Gastroenterology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Bengtsson, Mariette ^a,b   Ohlsson, Bodil ^a,b   Ulander, Kerstin ^c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c KRISTIANSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTENT VALIDITY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRITERION RELATED VALIDITY; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; IRRITABLE COLON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SELF REPORT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WELLBEING; ABDOMINAL PAIN; CONSTIPATION; DIARRHEA; FLATULENCE; MIDDLE AGED; NAUSEA; PAIN ASSESSMENT; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; VALIDATION STUDY; VOMITING;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; CONSTIPATION; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; FLATULENCE; HUMANS; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAUSEA; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PSYCHOMETRICS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VOMITING;

EID: 34249042075     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471230X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-230X-7-16     Document Type: Article

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