Quality of life measures for children - methodological challenges and state of the art

Zeitschrift fur Medizinische Psychologie

Volumn 16, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 25-40

  Ravens Sieberer, Ulrike ^a,b   Erhart, Michael ^a   Wille, Nora ^a   Nickel, Jennifer ^a   Bullinger, Monika ^c  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Children and adolescents; Health related quality of life; Psychometric tests: review

Indexed keywords

EID: 85013620540     PISSN: 09405569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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