Measurement quality and validity of the "need for recovery scale"

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2003, Pages

  Van Veldhoven, M ^a   Broersen, S ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Dutch Found Qual Occup Hlth Care   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONVALESCENCE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FATIGUE; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; VALIDATION PROCESS; WORK; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PSYCHOMETRICS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0038820111     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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