Development of the Japanese 15D Instrument of Health-Related Quality of Life: Verification of Reliability and Validity among Elderly People

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Okamoto, Nozomi ^a   Hisashige, Akinori ^b   Tanaka, Yuu ^a   Kurumatani, Norio ^a  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Institute of Healthcare Technology Assessment   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BODY MOVEMENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRITERION RELATED VALIDITY; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EATING; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL WELLBEING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; JAPANESE 15D; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MENTAL FUNCTION; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NOTTINGHAM HEALTH PROFILE; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PHYSICAL WELLBEING; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY INDEX OF COMPETENCE; VALIDATION STUDY; WELLBEING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84876192054     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061721     Document Type: Article

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