Cross-cultural adaptation difficulties in health quality of life scales for developing countries: Example of St-George Respiratory Questionnaire validation in Morocco;Difficultés de l'adaptation transculturelle des échelles de mesure en santé dans les pays du sud : exemple de la validation du St-George Respiratory Questionnaire au Maroc

Revue d'Epidemiologie et de Sante Publique

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 179-189

  El Rhazi, K ^a   Nejjari, C ^a   Serhier, Z ^a   Tachfouti, N ^a   Berraho, M ^a   Zakaria, Y ^b   Qarmiche, N ^a   Benjelloun, M C ^c   Barberger Gateau, P ^d  

^a SIDI MOHAMED BEN ABDELLAH UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^b Military Hospital Moulay Ismail   (Morocco)

^c HASSAN II UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Morocco)

^d INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Cross cultural adaptation; Morocco; SGRQ

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; LANGUAGE; MOROCCO; POPULATION RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; ST GEORGE RESPIRATORY QUESTIONNAIRE;

ALGORITHMS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MOROCCO; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRANSLATING; VALIDATION STUDIES AS TOPIC;

EID: 68949159721     PISSN: 03987620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respe.2008.11.005     Document Type: Article

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