Further development and validation of the Occupational Fatigue Exhaustion Recovery (OFER) scale

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 381-389

  Winwood, Peter C ^a   Lushington, Kurt ^a   Winefield, Anthony H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONVALESCENCE; EXHAUSTION; FATIGUE; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NURSE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; SCREENING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AUSTRALIA; CHRONIC DISEASE; EVALUATION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; NURSING; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; THEORETICAL MODEL; VALIDATION STUDY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NURSING; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; WEIGHTS AND MEASURES;

EID: 33646842707     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.jom.0000194164.14081.06     Document Type: Article

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