Translation and validation of the EORTC brain cancer module (EORTC QLQ-BN20) for use in Iran

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Khoshnevisan, Alireza ^a   Yekaninejad, Mir S ^b,d   Ardakani, Shahab K ^a   Pakpour, Amir H ^c   Mardani, Azam ^d   Aaronson, Neil K ^e  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c QAZVIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brain cancer; Psychometric evaluation; QLQ BN20; QLQ C30; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERFORMANCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY OF LIFE BN20 QUESTIONNAIRE; QUESTIONNAIRE; BRAIN TUMOR; LANGUAGE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIAL CLASS; STANDARD; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILINGUALISM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL CLASS; TRANSLATING;

EID: 84861178520     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-10-54     Document Type: Article

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