Assessing cultural appropriateness of three translated cancer-related fatigue instruments

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Shun, Shiow Ching ^a,c   Beck, Susan L ^b   Frost, Caren J ^b   Berry, Patricia H ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c NONE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cancer; Culture appropriateness; Fatigue; Measurement; Translation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER; CHEMOTHERAPY; CHINESE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FATIGUE; HUMAN; NURSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SAMPLING; SEMANTICS; TAIWAN; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EMOTION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; LANGUAGE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; NURSING; NURSING ASSESSMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURE; EMOTIONS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NURSING ASSESSMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TAIWAN;

EID: 34347229103     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.NCC.0000270712.10532.ca     Document Type: Article

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