Health-related quality of life in Brazil: normative data for the SF-36 in a general population sample in the south of the country

The objective of this study was to provide normative SF-36 scores in a general population sample in Brazil and to describe differences in mean scores according to socio-demographic characteristics. The SF-36 questionnaire was distributed to a randomly selected sample of the general population of Por...

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Main Authors: Luciane Nascimento Cruz, Marcelo Pio de Almeida Fleck, Michele Rosana Oliveira, Suzi Alves Camey, Juliana Feliciati Hoffmann, Ângela Maria Bagattini, Carisi Anne Polanczyk
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Pós-Graduação em Saúde Coletiva 2013-07-01
Series:Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
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Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-81232013001500006&lng=en&tlng=en