Guidelines for improving the stringency of response shift research using the thentest

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 455-464

  Schwartz, Carolyn E ^a,b   Sprangers, Mirjam A G ^c  

^a DeltaQuest Foundation Inc   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Guidelines; Implicit theories of change; Patient reported quality of life; Recall bias; Response shift; Retrospective pre test; Thentest

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELF CONCEPT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELECTION BIAS; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 77956392101     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11136-010-9585-9     Document Type: Article

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