Measurement equivalence of the English, Chinese and Malay versions of the World Health Organization quality of life (WHOQOL-BREF) questionnaires

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2019, Pages

  Cheung, Yin Bun ^a,b   Yeo, Khung Keong ^a,c   Chong, Kok Joon ^d   Khoo, Eric Yin Hao ^d,e   Wee, Hwee Lin ^f  

^a DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^c DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY   (Singapore)

^d Dept Medicine Endocrinol Diabet   (Singapore)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^f NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Equivalence; Patient reported outcomes; Preference based measures; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHINESE (LANGUAGE); CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; EDUCATION; EQUIVALENCE TRIAL; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAY (LANGUAGE); MALE; MARRIAGE; PATIENT-REPORTED OUTCOME; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SMOKING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; MALAYSIA; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOMETRY; PUBLICATION; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION STUDY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALAYSIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TRANSLATIONS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85064435708     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12955-019-1130-0     Document Type: Article

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