Questionnaire items to assess skin color and erythemal sensitivity: Reliability, validity, and "the dark shift"

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1167-1173

  Reeder, Anthony I ^a   Hammond, Vanessa A ^a   Gray, Andrew R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHEMA; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKIN COLOR; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; SUN EXPOSURE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOSENSITIVITY DISORDERS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SKIN; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SUNLIGHT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952019143     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-09-1300     Document Type: Article

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