The WHO quality of life assessment instrument (WHOQOL-Bref): The importance of its items for cross-cultural research
- 1 January 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Quality of Life Research
- Vol. 10 (8), 711-721
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1013867826835
Abstract
One of the fundamental issues in the area of assessment of quality of life is to determine what is important to the individuals' quality of life. This is even more crucial when the instrument is for...Keywords
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