Performance comparison of Likert and binary formats of SF-36 version 1.6 across ECRHS II adults populations

Value in Health

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 478-488

  Grassi, Mario ^a,b   Nucera, Andrea ^b   Zanolin, Elisabetta ^c   Omenaas, Ernst ^d   Anto, Josep M ^e   Leynaert, Bénédicte ^f  

^a Dipartimento di Scienze Sanitarie Applicate e Psicocomportamentali   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^d HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^f INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Binary recoding; ECRHS II; Health status assessment; Scaling comparison; SF 36 version 1.6

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPRESSION; HEALTH SURVEY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; ASTHMA; DATA COLLECTION; EUROPE; EUROPEAN UNION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 35548953539     PISSN: 10983015     EISSN: 15244733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4733.2007.00203.x     Document Type: Article

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