Titre :
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Translating functional health and well-being : international quality of life assessment (IQOLA) project studies of the SF-36 health survey. Testing the equivalence of translations of widely used response choice labels : Results from the IQOLA project. (1998)
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Auteurs :
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S.D. KELLER ;
N.K. Aaronson ;
J. ALONSO ;
G. APOLONE ;
J.B. BJORNER ;
J. BRAZIER ;
M. BULLINGER ;
S. FUKUHARA ;
Barbara GANDEK, éd. ;
B. GANDEK ;
S. KAASA ;
A. Leplège ;
R.W. SANSON FISHER ;
M. SULLIVAN ;
John-Ejr WARE, éd. ;
Jejr WARE ;
S. WOOD DAUPHINEE ;
Health Assessment Lab at the Health Institute. New England Medical Center. Boston. MA. USA
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Type de document :
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Article
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Dans :
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Journal of clinical epidemiology (vol. 51, n° 11, 1998)
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Pagination :
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933-944
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Langues:
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Anglais
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Mots-clés :
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Qualité vie
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Etat santé
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Echelle santé
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Traduction
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Langue étrangère
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Questionnaire
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Résultat
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Homme
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Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST DKR0xFOw. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. The similarity in meaning assigned to response choice labels from the SF-36 Health Survey (SF-36) was evaluated across countries. Convenience samples of judges (range, 10 to 117 ; median=48) from 13 countries rated translations of response choice labels, using a variation of the Thurstone method of equal appearing intervals. Judges marked a point On a 10-cm line representing the magnitude of a response choice label (e.g., "good" relative to the anchors of "poor and" excellent "). Ratings were evaluated to determine the ordinal consistency of response choice labels within a response scale ; the degree to which differences between adjacent response choice labels were equal interval ; and the amount of variance due to response choice label, country, judge, and interaction between response choice label and country. Results confirmed the hypothesized ordering of response choice labels ; the percentage of ordinal pairs ranged from 88.7% to 100% (median=98.2%) across countries and response scales. Examination of the average magnitudes of response choice labels supported the" quasi-interval'nature of the scales. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) results supported the gencralizability of response choice magnitudes across countries ; labels explained 64% to 77% of the variance in ratings, and country explained 1% to 3%. These results support the equivalence of SF-36 response choice labels across countries. (...)
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