Evaluation of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General (FACT-G) Spanish version 4 in South America: Classic psychometric and item response theory analyses

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Dapueto, Juan J ^a   Francolino, Carla ^a   Servente, Liliana ^a   Chang, Chih Hung ^b   Gotta, Irene ^a   Levin, Roberto ^a   del Carmen Abreu, María ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CANCER THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOUTH AMERICA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; URUGUAY; VALIDATION PROCESS; WELLBEING; INSTRUMENTATION; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLICATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF EVALUATION; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH AFRICA; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA; TRANSLATIONS;

EID: 4243183584     PISSN: 14777525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-1-32     Document Type: Article

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