Evaluation of an upper extremity student-role functioning scale using item response theory

Work

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 105-116

  Schmidt L , Lacey ^a   Amick III, Benjamin C ^b   Katz, Jeffrey N ^c   Ellis, Barbara B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b Sch Pub Hlth Assoc Dir Educ   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM DISEASE; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ERGONOMICS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PREVALENCE; THEORY;

ADULT; ARM; COMPUTERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STUDENTS;

EID: 0036438387     PISSN: 10519815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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