Validation of the German version of the vertigo handicap questionnaire (VHQ) in patients with vestibular vertigo syndromes or somatoform vertigo and dizziness;Deutschsprachige Validierung des Vertigo Handicap Questionnaire (VHQ) anhand einer Patientenstichprobe mit vestibulärem und somatoformem Schwindel

PPmP Psychotherapie Psychosomatik Medizinische Psychologie

Volumn 60, Issue 9-10, 2010, Pages

  Tschan, Regine ^a   Wiltink, Jörg ^a   Best, Christoph ^a   Beutel, Manfred ^a   Dieterich, Marianne ^a,b   Eckhardt Henn, Annegret ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c KLINIKUM STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

anxiety; dizziness; handicap; validation; vertigo

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZZINESS; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; SOMATOFORM VERTIGO; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VALIDATION PROCESS; VERTIGO; VERTIGO HANDICAP QUESTIONNAIRE; VESTIBULAR VERTIGO SYNDROME;

EID: 77957670788     PISSN: 09372032     EISSN: 14391058     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1243206     Document Type: Article

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