Agreement of Children and Parents Scores on Chinese Version of Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory Version 4.0: Further Psychometric Development

Applied Research in Quality of Life

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 891-906

  Cheng, Chung Ping ^a   Luh, Wei Ming ^a   Yang, Ai Lun ^b   Su, Chia Ting ^c   Lin, Chung Ying ^d  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TAIPEI   (Taiwan)

^c FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Agreement; Confirmatory factory analysis; Multitrait multimethod analysis; Quality of life; Smallest real difference

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928350396     PISSN: 18712584     EISSN: 18712576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11482-015-9405-z     Document Type: Article

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