The Turkish version of the National Eye Institute Refractive Error Quality of Life Instrument: Translation, validity and reliability

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1269-1276

  Toker, Ebru ^a,b   Onal, Sumru ^a   Eraslan, Muhsin ^a   Eyriparmak, Merih ^a  

^a MARMARA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b Agaoglu My Country Sitesi D10 1   (Turkey)

Author keywords

National Eye Institute Refractive Error Quality of Life Instrument (NEI RQL 42); Refractive error; Reliability; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTACT LENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMMETROPIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOPIA; NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE REFRACTIVE ERROR QUALITY OF LIFE INSTRUMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REFRACTION ERROR; RELIABILITY; SPECTACLES; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); VALIDITY; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE (U.S.); PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; TURKEY; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 57449115127     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11136-008-9407-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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