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WHO Quality of Life Assessment of CFS

Eur J Psychol Assess Vol. 13, #3, pp 164-178, 1997

URL:    http://www.hhpub.com/journals/ejpa/
        http://www.hhpub.com/journals/ejpa/19971303.html#19991303_1
Ref:    Authors:
        http://www.kub.nl/webwijs/show.html?anr=229075
        http://www.kub.nl/webwijs/show.html?anr=468649


The World Health Organization Quality of Life Assessment Instrument
(WHOQOL-100): Validation Study with the Dutch Version
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Jolanda De Vries and Guus L. Van Heck
Department of Psychology, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands


Abstract

Keywords
Quality of life, psychometrics, assessment, health, self-esteem

In this study, we examine the reliability and validity of a new quality-
of-life (QoL) instrument, the Field Trial Version of the World Health
Organization Quality of Life assessment instrument (WHOQOL-100).
Two-hundred-and-twenty persons, 147 healthy individuals and 73 chronic
fatigue syndrome (CFS) patients, completed the WHOQOL-100 and a test
battery of related measures. The WHOOQL-100 has a fairly good internal
consistency and a good validity.

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