Using item response theory to analyze the relationship between health-related quality of life and health risk factors

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Jiang, Yongwen ^a   Hesser, Jana Earl ^a  

^a RHODE ISLAND DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEHAVIORAL RISK FACTOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT EDUCATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEHAVIORAL RISK FACTOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RHODE ISLAND; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 59149104995     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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