Development of a vision-targeted health-related quality of life item measure

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2477-2487

  Paz, Sylvia H ^a   Slotkin, Jerry ^b   McKean Cowdin, Roberta ^c   Lee, Paul ^d   Owsley, Cynthia ^e   Vitale, Susan ^f   Varma, Rohit ^c   Gershon, Richard ^b   Hays, Ron D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^f NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Instrument development; Instrument psychometric evaluation and calibration; NIH Toolbox; Vision related quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SATISFACTION; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; UNITED STATES; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 84892820785     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11136-013-0365-1     Document Type: Review

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