Validity and reliability of the Iranian version of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ 4.0 (PedsQL™) Generic Core Scales in children

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Amiri, Parisa ^a   Eslamian, Ghazaleh ^a,b   Mirmiran, Parvin ^a   Shiva, Niloofar ^c   Jafarabadi, Mohammad A ^d   Azizi, Fereidoun ^c  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Children; Health related quality of life; Iran; Pedsql

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; IRAN; MALE; PEDIATRIC QUALITY OF LIFE INVENTORY 4.0 GENERIC CORE SCALE; QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX; RATING SCALE; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF REPORT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HEALTH SURVEY; INSTRUMENTATION; LANGUAGE; METHODOLOGY; PEDIATRICS; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; VALIDATION STUDY;

CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; PEDIATRICS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF REPORT; TRANSLATING;

EID: 84855369371     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-10-3     Document Type: Article

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