The content validity index: Are you sure you know what's being reported? Critique and recommendations

Research in Nursing and Health

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 489-497

  Polit, Denise F ^a,b   Beck, Cheryl Tatano ^c  

^a Humanalysis Inc   (United States)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Content validity; Instrument development and validation; Methodological research; Scaling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NURSING RESEARCH; REPRODUCIBILITY;

HUMANS; NURSING RESEARCH; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 33750143276     PISSN: 01606891     EISSN: 1098240X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nur.20147     Document Type: Article

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