The eight-item modified Medical Outcomes Study Social Support Survey: Psychometric evaluation showed excellent performance

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1107-1116

  Moser, André ^a   Stuck, Andreas E ^b   Silliman, Rebecca A ^c   Ganz, Patricia A ^d   Clough Gorr, Kerri M ^a,c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Cancer specific geriatric assessment; Emotional social support; Instrumental social support; Older women; Psychometrics; Reliability; Social support; Social support assessment; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RESEARCH; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL OUTCOMES STUDY SOCIAL SUPPORT SURVEY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; RANK SUM TEST; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STUDENT T TEST;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84865268555     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2012.04.007     Document Type: Article

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