Measuring the quality of life of visually impaired children: First stage psychometric evaluation of the novel VQoL - CYP instrument

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Tadić, Valerija ^a,e   Cooper, Andrew ^b   Cumberland, Phillippa ^a,f   Lewando Hundt, Gillian ^c   Rahi, Jugnoo S ^a,d,e,f   Dale, Naomi ^g   Khaw, Peng Tee ^g   Moore, Anthony ^g   Salt, Alison ^g   Taylor, David ^g   Brown, Corie ^g   Craig, Marianne ^g   Ennals, Christine ^g   Keeley, Sarah ^g   Thompson, Lucy ^g   Osborne, Jackie ^g   Sobti, Nidhi ^g   Thomas, Paula ^g   Thompson, Jude ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^f Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children   (United Kingdom)

^g NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL VISION QUESTIONNAIRE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE; GENERIC HEALTH RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY OF LIFE ASSESSMENT; RASCH ANALYSIS; SELF REPORT; UNITED KINGDOM; VISION RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE INSTRUMENT FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; ENGLAND; PILOT STUDY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VALIDATION STUDY; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSON;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONDON; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF REPORT; VISION DISORDERS; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS;

EID: 84960409490     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0146225     Document Type: Article

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