Methods for translating an English-language survey questionnaire on tobacco use into mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, and Vietnamese

Field Methods

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 264-283

  Forsyth, Barbara H ^a   Kudela, Martha Stapleton ^a   Levin, Kerry ^a   Lawrence, Deirdre ^b   Willis, Gordon B ^b  

^a WESTAT   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Survey methods; Survey translation; Tobacco use survey; Translation evaluation; TRAPD translation framework

Indexed keywords

EID: 41749088074     PISSN: 1525822X     EISSN: 15523969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1525822X07302105     Document Type: Article

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