The St George’s Respiratory Questionnaire revisited: a psychometric evaluation

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 67-79

  Paap, Muirne C S ^a   Brouwer, Danny ^b   Glas, Cees A W ^a   Monninkhof, Evelyn M ^c   Forstreuter, Benjamin ^a   Pieterse, Marcel E ^a   van der Palen, Job ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d MEDISCH SPECTRUM TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bifactor analysis; COPD; Mokken scale analysis; Multidimensional item response theory; SGRQ

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DUTCHMAN; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT PRECISION; PSYCHOMETRY; SECONDARY ANALYSIS; ST. GEORGE RESPIRATORY QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; EVALUATION STUDY; HEALTH STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PUBLICATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGED; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TRANSLATIONS;

EID: 84937512346     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: 15732649     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11136-013-0570-y     Document Type: Article

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