Psychometric evaluation of the German version of the Life Attitude Profile-Revised (LAP-R) in prostate cancer patients

Palliative and Supportive Care

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 119-124

  Mehnert, Anja ^a   Koch, Uwe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Assessment; Cancer; Health related quality of life; HRQOL; LAP R; Meaning; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; GERMANY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATE TUMOR; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; STANDARD;

AGED; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE;

EID: 44449115701     PISSN: 14789515     EISSN: 14789523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1478951508000199     Document Type: Article

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