Feasibility, reliability and validity of health-related quality of life questionnaire among adult pulmonary tuberculosis patients in urban Uganda: Cross-sectional study

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 8, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Babikako, Harriet M ^a   Neuhauser, Duncan ^b   Katamba, Achilles ^a   Mupere, Ezekiel ^a  

^a MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN;

ADULT; AFRICA; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; LUNG BURDEN; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL OUTCOME SURVEY; MENTAL HEALTH; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PRIVATE HOSPITAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SUMMATED RATING SCALE; UGANDA; URBAN POPULATION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WELLBEING;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; UGANDA; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 77956491110     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-8-93     Document Type: Article

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