Psychometric properties of the EORTC head and neck-specific quality of life questionnaire in disease-free Greek patients with cancer of pharynx and larynx

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 761-768

  Nalbadian, Meri ^a   Nikolaidis, Vasilios ^a   Nikolaou, Agelos ^a   Themelis, Christos ^a   Kouloulas, Athanasios ^a   Vital, Victor ^a  

^a Konstantinopolitika ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

EORTC QLQ H N35; Laryngeal cancer; Quality of life; Questionnaire

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LANGUAGE; LARYNX TUMOR; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHARYNX CANCER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LANGUAGE; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956394740     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11136-010-9628-2     Document Type: Article

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