Confirmatory and exploratory factor analysis of the caregiver quality of life index-cancer with Turkish samples

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 913-921

  Ozer, Zeynep C ^a   Firat, Mehmet Z ^a   Bektas, Hicran A ^a  

^a AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Caregiver; Caregiver quality of life index cancer (CQOLC); Confirmatory factor analysis; Exploratory factor analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CENTER; CANCER PATIENT; CAREGIVER; CAREGIVER QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX CANCER; CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EXPLORATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); VARIMAX ROTATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CAREGIVERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TURKEY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69249216474     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11136-009-9503-1     Document Type: Article

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