Health related quality of life assessment in Pakistani paediatric cancer patients using PedsQLTM 4.0 generic core scale and PedsQL™ cancer module

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Chaudhry, Zainab ^a   Siddiqui, Salma ^b  

^a GC UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Cultural significance; Health related quality of life; Healthy children; Paediatric cancer; Parental perception; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PAKISTAN; PAKISTANI; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; PEDIATRICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARD;

FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PAKISTAN; PEDIATRICS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84861146514     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-10-52     Document Type: Article

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