Predicting health-related quality of life: Testing the contextual model using structural equation modeling

Applied Research in Quality of Life

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 215-230

  Ashing Giwa, Kimlin T ^a,b   Lim, Jung Won ^a  

^a CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bio psychological domain; Breast cancer; Cultural socio ecological domain; HRQOL; SEM models

Indexed keywords

EID: 64549154426     PISSN: 18712584     EISSN: 18712576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11482-009-9057-y     Document Type: Article

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