Assessing Differences in How the CushingQoL Is Interpreted Across Countries: Comparing Patients From the U.S. and the Netherlands
Background: Cultural factors influence how individuals define, evaluate, and approach their quality of life (QoL). The CushingQoL is a widely used disease-specific questionnaire to assess QoL in patients with Cushing's syndrome. However, there is no information about potential cross-country differences in the way patients interpret the items on the CushingQoL. Thus, the current study examined if the CushingQoL is interpreted in the same way across nationalities.Methods: Patients from the U.S. (n = 260) and the Netherlands (n = 103) were asked to fill out the CushingQoL and a short demographics... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2018 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Frontiers in Endocrinology, Vol 9 (2018) |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
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Schlagwörter: | CushingQoL / quality of life / Cushing's syndrome / measurement invariance / cross-country comparison / Diseases of the endocrine glands. Clinical endocrinology / RC648-665 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28756944 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2018.00368 |