Initial validation of the Argentinean Spanish version of the PedsQL™ 4.0 Generic Core Scales in children and adolescents with chronic diseases: Acceptability and comprehensibility in low-income settings

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 6, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Roizen, Mariana ^a   Rodríguez, Susana ^a   Bauer, Gabriela ^a   Medin, Gabriela ^b   Bevilacqua, Silvina ^a   Varni, James W ^c,d   Dussel, Veronica ^e,f  

^a HOSPITAL DE PEDIATRÍA PROF DR JUAN P GARRAHAN   (Argentina)

^b HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

^c TEXAS A M COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; KIDNEY FAILURE; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT CARE; PEDIATRIC QUALITY OF LIFE INVENTORY 4.0 GENERIC CORE SCALES; POVERTY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL STATUS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; VALIDATION STUDY; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH SURVEY; INSTRUMENTATION; LANGUAGE; PARENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE;

ADOLESCENT; ARGENTINA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PARENTS; POVERTY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE;

EID: 51949110864     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-6-59     Document Type: Article

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