The World Health Organization Quality of Life Assessment (WHOQOL): development and general psychometric properties.
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Summary
The steps are presented from the development of the initial pilot version of the instrument to the field trial version, the so-called WHOQOL-100, which has been developed collaboratively in a number of centres in diverse cultural settings over several years.
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- article
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- 1998-06-01
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- 3,434
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Keywords
Psychometrics, Quality of life (healthcare), Applied psychology, Field (mathematics), Psychology
References
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- Personality, measurement, and theory
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- Statistical Principles in Experimental Design, 2nd Edition.
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- Creating and Evaluating Cross-Cultual Instruments
- Translation of Health Status Instruments
- Ensuring International Equivalence of Quality of Life Measures: Problems and Approaches to Solutions
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