Validity and reliability of the Italian version of the ECOS-16 questionnaire in postmenopausal women with prevalent vertebral fractures due to osteoporosis

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 390-403

  Salaffi, Fausto ^a   Malavolta, N ^b   Cimmino, M A ^c   Di Matteo, L ^d   Scendoni, P ^e   Carotti, M ^a   Stancati, A ^a   Mule, R ^b   Frigato, M ^b   Gutierrez, M ^a   Grassi, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^d UOC di Reumatologia   (Italy)

^e INRCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

ECOS 16; Osteoporosis; Quality of life; Questionnaire; Vertebral fractures

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; DEMOGRAPHY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; ITALY; KRUSKAL WALLIS TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTPATIENT; POSTMENOPAUSE OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANK SUM TEST; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SHORT FORM 36; SOCIOECONOMICS; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; LANGUAGE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPINAL FRACTURES;

EID: 34547097293     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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