Validity and reliability of the European Organization for Research and Treatment in Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire (EORTC QLQ): Experience from Kuwait using a sample of women with breast cancer

Annals of Saudi Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 390-396

  Alawadhi, Shafika ^a   Ohaeri, Jude ^b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b Psychological Medicine Hospital Kuwait   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER THERAPY; COGNITION; CONSTIPATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIARRHEA; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HAIR LOSS; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; KUWAIT; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SOCIAL STATUS; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VALIDITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARABS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KUWAIT; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956241354     PISSN: 02564947     EISSN: 09754466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0256-4947.67083     Document Type: Article

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