Health-related quality-of-life in patients with head-and-neck cancer in Sri Lanka: Psychometric properties of the 'Sinhala' version of the EORTC QLQ-H&N35

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1116-1121

  Jayasekara, Harindra ^a,b   Rajapaksa, Lalini C ^c   Aaronson, Neil K ^d  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Sri Lanka)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

^d NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

European organization for research and treatment of cancer; Head and neck cancer; Health related quality of life; Psycho oncology; Psychometrics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; EUROPEAN ORGANIZATION FOR RESEARCH AND TREATMENT OF CANCER HEAD AND NECK CANCER SPECIFIC HEALTH RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE QUESTIONNAIRE; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIABILITY; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SRI LANKA;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SRI LANKA;

EID: 70449428164     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: 10991611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pon.1430     Document Type: Article

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