The living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease scale was successfully adapted for use in Southern European (Italian and Spanish) and Eastern European (Russian) cultures

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 906-914

  McKenna, Stephen P ^a   Twiss, James ^a   Crawford, Sigrid R ^a   Oprandi, Nadia C ^b   Tammaru, Marika ^c   Miravitlles, Marc ^d  

^a GALEN RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^d HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Language adaptation; LCOPD; Patient reported outcome measure; Quality of life; Questionnaire

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTENT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EUROPEAN UNION; FACE VALIDITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; INTERVIEW; LIVING WITH CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; REPRODUCIBILITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

AGED; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RUSSIA; SPAIN; TRANSLATING;

EID: 84862886590     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2012.02.001     Document Type: Article

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