Psychometric properties of the national eye institute refractive error correction quality-of-life questionnaire among Iranian patients

Oman Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 37-43

  Pakpour, Amir H ^a   Zeidi, Isa Mohammadi ^a   Saffari, Mohsen ^b   Labiris, Georgios ^c,d   Fridlund, Bengt ^e  

^a QAZVIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b BAQIYATALLAH UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^d Eye Institute of Thrace   (Greece)

^e JÖNKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Methodology; NEI RQL 42; quality of life; refractive error; validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878541844     PISSN: 0974620X     EISSN: 09747842     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0974-620X.111911     Document Type: Article

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