A study of concordance between adolescent self-report and parent-proxy report of health-related quality of life in school-going adolescents

Journal of Psychosomatic Research

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 525-532

  Agnihotri, Kasturi ^a   Awasthi, Shally ^a   Singh, Uttam ^b   Chandra, Hem ^b   Thakur, Savitri ^a  

^a KING GEORGE'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Agreement; Concordance; Health related quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CUSTODY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF REPORT;

ADOLESCENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF REPORT;

EID: 78649443901     PISSN: 00223999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2010.03.011     Document Type: Article

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