Development and validation of a scale to measure work-related fatigue and recovery: The Occupational Fatigue Exhaustion/Recovery scale (OFER)

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 594-606

  Winwood, P C ^a   Winefield, A H ^a   Dawson, D ^a   Lushington, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; CONVALESCENCE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL FATIGUE EXHAUSTION RECOVERY SCALE; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE; SHIFT WORKER; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 20544450294     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.jom.0000161740.71049.c4     Document Type: Article

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