Direction of wording and responses to items in oral health-related quality of life questionnaires for children and their parents

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 255-262

  Locker, David ^a   Jokovic, Aleksandra ^a   Allison, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acquiescence response set; Children; Oral health related quality of life; Positive health; Response bias

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; EATING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMAN; MALE; MOUTH HYGIENE; NOMENCLATURE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHILD; EATING; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORAL HEALTH; ORAL HYGIENE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; SELF EFFICACY; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 34547281157     PISSN: 03015661     EISSN: 16000528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0528.2007.00320.x     Document Type: Article

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