Psychometric properties of the Need for Recovery after work scale: Test-retest reliability and sensitivity to detect change

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 202-206

  De Croon, E M ^b   Sluiter, J K ^a,b   Frings Dresen, M H W ^b  

^a Amsterdam Public Health research institute   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHECKLIST; CONVALESCENCE; DRIVER; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JOB ADAPTATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NURSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORK SCHEDULE; WORKING TIME;

ADULT; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOB SATISFACTION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NURSES; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE; WORKLOAD;

EID: 33644915292     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2004.018275     Document Type: Article

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