Designing response scales for cross-cultural use in health care: Data from the development of the UK WHOQOL

Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 51-61

  Skevington, Suzanne M ^a   Tucker, Christine ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

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