Reliability and validity of the Thai version of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory 4.0

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 551-557

  Sritipsukho, Paskorn ^a   Wisai, Matoorada ^b   Thavorncharoensap, Montarat ^c  

^a THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b Payakphumisai Hospital   (Thailand)

^c MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Children; Health related quality of life; PedsQL; Reliability; Thailand; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; DEVICES; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LANGUAGE; MALE; PARENT; PEDIATRICS; PROCEDURES; PROXY; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF REPORT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THAILAND; TRANSLATING (LANGUAGE); ARTICLE; ASIAN; CUSTODY; EQUIPMENT; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LANGUAGE; MALE; PARENTS; PEDIATRICS; PROXY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF REPORT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; THAILAND; TRANSLATING;

EID: 84876500145     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11136-012-0190-y     Document Type: Article

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