The development and psychometric evaluation of the ethical issues scale

Journal of Nursing Scholarship

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 273-277

  Fry, Sara T ^a   Duffy, Mary E ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Confirmatory factor analysis; Ethical issues; Instrument development

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; MULTICENTER STUDY; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; UNITED STATES;

BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; EMPIRICAL APPROACH;

ETHICS, NURSING; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; NEW ENGLAND; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0035230554     PISSN: 15276546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1547-5069.2001.00273.x     Document Type: Article

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