Thai SF-36 health survey: Tests of data quality, scaling assumptions, reliability and validity in healthy men and women

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 6, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Lim, Lynette L Y ^a   Seubsman, Sam Ang ^b   Sleigh, Adrian ^a  

^a The Australian National University   (Australia)

^b SUKHOTHAI THAMMATHIRAT OPEN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DATA ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT FORM 36; SOCIAL INTERACTION; THAILAND; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; VALIDITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EDUCATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH STATUS; METHODOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STANDARD; STATISTICS; STUDENT; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EDUCATION, DISTANCE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SEX FACTORS; STUDENTS; THAILAND;

EID: 49749142954     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-6-52     Document Type: Article

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