Ensuring content validity: An illustration of the process

Journal of Nursing Measurement

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 201-215

  Beck, Cheryl Tatano ^a   Gable, Robert K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROL; EMOTION; FEAR; FEMALE; GRIEF; GUILT; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOMETRY; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SATISFACTION; SELF CONCEPT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD;

ANXIETY; ATTENTION; DEPRESSION, POSTPARTUM; EMOTIONS; FEAR; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GRIEF; GUILT; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF CONCEPT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0035464392     PISSN: 10613749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1891/1061-3749.9.2.201     Document Type: Article

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