The validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the University of Washington Quality of Life Questionnaire for patients with head and neck cancer

American Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Medicine and Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 417-426

  Şenkal, Hilmi Alper ^a   Hayran, Mutlu ^a   Karakaya, Ebru ^a   Yueh, Bevan ^b   Weymuller Jr , Ernest A ^b   Hoşal, A Şefik ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; EUROPEAN ORGANIZATION FOR RESEARCH AND TREATMENT OF CANCERQUALITY OF LIFE CORE QUESTIONNAIRE; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; MALE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON QUALITY OF LIFE QUESTIONNAIRE; VALIDITY;

ADULT; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRANSLATIONS; TURKEY;

EID: 84863227235     PISSN: 01960709     EISSN: 1532818X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjoto.2011.10.014     Document Type: Article

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