Summarizing the fifteen scales of the EORTC QLQ-C30 questionnaire by five aggregate scales with two underlying dimensions: A literature review and an empirical study

Journal of Psychosocial Oncology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 413-430

  Van Der Kloot, Willem A ^a   Kobayashi, Kunihiko ^b   Yamaoka, Kazue ^c   Inoue, Kenichi ^d   Nortier, Hans W R ^e   Kaptein, Ad A ^e  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Saitama International Medical Centre   (Japan)

^c TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d SAITAMA CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^e LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

cancer; categorical principal component analysis; EORTC QLQ C30; health related quality of life; illness perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BRIEF ILLNESS PERCEPTION QUESTIONNAIRE; CANCER PATIENT; EMPIRICISM; EUROPEAN ORGANIZATION FOR RESEARCH AND TREATMENT OF CANCER QUALITY OF LIFE QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LUNG CANCER; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

CANCER; CATEGORICAL PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; EORTC QLQ-C30; HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE; ILLNESS PERCEPTION;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; EUROPE; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84903765198     PISSN: 07347332     EISSN: 15407586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07347332.2014.917139     Document Type: Article

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