How to design and validate a questionnaire: A guide

Current Clinical Pharmacology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 210-215

  Boparai, Jaspreet Kaur ^a   Singh, Surjit ^b   Kathuria, Priyanka ^b  

^a Government Institute of Medical Sciences   (India)

^b ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Pragmatic research; Psychometric assessment; Questionnaire designing; Questionnaire validation; Validity; WOMAC

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PUBLICATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; VALIDATION PROCESS; VALIDITY; WESTERN ONTARIO AND MCMASTER UNIVERSITIES OSTEOARTHRITIS INDEX; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDS; TRANSLATING (LANGUAGE);

GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TRANSLATING;

EID: 85061477549     PISSN: 15748847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1574884713666180807151328     Document Type: Article

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