Confirmatory factor analytical study of the WHOQOL-Bref: Experience with Sudanese general population and psychiatric samples

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Ohaeri, Jude U ^a   Awadalla, Abdel W ^b   El Abassi, Abdul Hamid M ^c   Jacob, Anila ^a  

^a Psychological Medicine Hospital Kuwait   (Kuwait)

^b KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^c Box 2822   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INDEPENDENCE; LIFE SATISFACTION; MALE; MENTAL PATIENT; MODEL; OUTPATIENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; SUDAN; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ETHNOLOGY; EVALUATION; HAPPINESS; INSTRUMENTATION; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SATISFACTION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; CAREGIVERS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SUDAN; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 34548016984     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-7-37     Document Type: Article

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