The Chinese version of the world health organization quality of life instrument-older adults module (WHOQOL-OLD): Psychometric evaluation

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Liu, Rong ^a   Wu, Shaomin ^a   Hao, Yuantao ^a   Gu, Jing ^a   Fang, Jiqian ^a   Cai, Nanqiao ^a   Zhang, Jinxin ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Elderly; Quality of life; Reliability; Validity; WHOQOL OLD

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINESE; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTENT VALIDITY; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTIMACY; MALE; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VALIDITY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION QUALITY OF LIFE INSTRUMENT OLDER ADULTS MODULE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHINA; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84883799478     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-11-156     Document Type: Article

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