Development and validation of a new bariatric-specific health-related quality of life instrument ′′bariatric and obesity-specific survey (BOSS)′′
Author(s) -
Raed Tayyem,
JM Atkinson,
C.R. Martin
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of postgraduate medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.405
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 0972-2823
pISSN - 0022-3859
DOI - 10.4103/0022-3859.143952
Subject(s) - medicine , quality of life (healthcare) , cronbach's alpha , construct validity , reliability (semiconductor) , physical therapy , exploratory factor analysis , face validity , test (biology) , anxiety , sf 36 , hospital anxiety and depression scale , scale (ratio) , psychometrics , health related quality of life , clinical psychology , psychiatry , nursing , paleontology , power (physics) , physics , disease , quantum mechanics , biology
There is a lack of a psychometrically robust bariatric-specific health-related quality of life (HRQOL) tool.
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