Psychometrics of the short form 36 health survey version 2 (SF-36v2) and the quality of life scale for drug addicts (QOL-DAv2.0) in Chinese mainland patients with methadone maintenance treatment

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Zhou, Kaina ^a   Zhuang, Guihua ^a   Zhang, Hongmei ^a   Liang, Peifeng ^a   Yin, Juan ^a   Kou, Lingling ^a   Hao, Mengmeng ^a   You, Lijuan ^a  

^a MEDICAL SCHOOL OF XI AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CHINA; DRUG USERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METHADONE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 84894353286     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079828     Document Type: Article

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