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Open AccessAssociation of health checkups with health-related quality of life among public servants: a nationwide survey in Taiwan
Preventive health checkups have gained in importance over the last decade. The association of health checkups and the number of diseases with health-related quality of life (HRQoL), including physical and ment...
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Open AccessA psychometric assessment of the St. George’s respiratory questionnaire in patients with COPD using rasch model analysis
The St. George’s Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ) was a widely used tool to assess disease impact on patients with obstructive airways disease. Although traditional methods have generally supported construct v...
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Open AccessMeasurement equivalence and feasibility of the EORTC QLQ-PR25: paper-and-pencil versus touch-screen administration
We assessed the measurement equivalence and feasibility of the paper-and-pencil and touch-screen modes of administration of the Taiwan Chinese version of the EORTC QLQ-PR25, a commonly used questionnaire to ev...
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Open AccessPsychometric evaluation of the Taiwan Chinese version of the EORTC QLQ-PR25 for HRQOL assessment in prostate cancer patients
To evaluate the psychometric properties of the Taiwan Chinese Version of the EORTC QLQ-PR25 health-related quality of life (HRQOL) questionnaire for patients with prostate cancer.
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Psychometric evaluation of the WHOQOL-BREF in community-dwelling older people in Taiwan using Rasch analysis
To examine the psychometric characteristics of the brief version of the World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL-BREF) questionnaire in rural-community-dwelling older people in Taiwan using Rasch anal...
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Open AccessAn empirical comparison of the WHOQOL-BREF and the SGRQ among patients with COPD
To compare the psychometric properties of the World Health Organization Quality of Life-BREF (WHOQOL-BREF) instrument and the St. George’s Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ), and to examine the association betwe...
