Cross-cultural adaptation of the Innsbruck health dimensions questionnaire for neurosurgical patients (IHD-NS)

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

Volumn 66, Issue 3 B, 2008, Pages 698-701

  Dos Santos, Camila Batista ^a,b   De Carvalho, Simone Carneiro Ahualli ^a   Da Silva, Maria Fernanda Gouveia ^a   Fuentes, Daniel ^a   Santana, Pedro Augusto ^a   Furlan, André Beer ^a   De Aguiar, Paulo Henrique Pires ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cross cultural adaptation; Neurosurgery; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; BRAIN TUMOR; BRAZIL; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INNSBRUCK HEALTH DIMENSIONS QUESTIONNAIRE FOR NEUROSURGICAL PATIENTS; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SURGICAL PATIENT;

EID: 56049125531     PISSN: 0004282X     EISSN: 16784227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0004-282X2008000500017     Document Type: Article

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