Cross-cultural Validation of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ 4.0 (PedsQL™) generic core scale into Arabic Language

Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 828-833

  Arabiat, Diana ^a   Elliott, Barbara ^b   Draper, Peter ^b   Al Jabery, Mohammad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arabic translation; Health related quality of life; Jordan; PedsQL (4.0); Psychometric testing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CULTURAL FACTOR; HUMAN; JORDAN; LANGUAGE; NEOPLASM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; VALIDATION STUDY;

CHILD; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; HUMANS; JORDAN; LANGUAGE; NEOPLASMS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TRANSLATING;

EID: 80755153721     PISSN: 02839318     EISSN: 14716712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-6712.2011.00889.x     Document Type: Article

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