Health related quality of life measures in Arabic speaking populations: A systematic review on cross-cultural adaptation and measurement properties

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 213-229

  Al Sayah, Fatima ^a   Ishaque, Sana ^a   Lau, Darren ^a   Johnson, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arabic; Cross cultural adaptation; Generic HRQL measures; Guillemin criteria; Measurement properties; Terwee criteria

Indexed keywords

ARAB; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; PSYCHOMETRY; PUBLICATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; TRANSLATING (LANGUAGE);

ARABS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRANSLATING; TRANSLATIONS;

EID: 84872682977     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11136-012-0129-3     Document Type: Review

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