Measuring Quality of Life across Cultures: Some Cautions and Prescriptions
| Autor: | D. E. Wright, G. Recchia, G. De Carli, S. H. Irvine |
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| Rok vydání: | 1994 |
| Předmět: |
Gerontology
medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Alternative medicine Pharmacology (nursing) 030226 pharmacology & pharmacy 01 natural sciences Clinical trial 010104 statistics & probability 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Quality of life (healthcare) Multinational corporation Chronic asthma Drug Guides medicine Cross-cultural Pharmacology (medical) 0101 mathematics Medical prescription business Reliability (statistics) |
| Zdroj: | Drug Information Journal. 28:55-62 |
| ISSN: | 0092-8615 |
| Popis: | As quality of life becomes more widely used as a measure of health status, care must be taken to consider cross-cultural psychology when developing questions for multinational, multicenter clinical trials. In addition, the reliability and validity of such measures must be proven. This paper reports on a cross-cultural study of chronic asthma sufferers in Italy and the United Kingdom. |
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