Reliability and validity study of Persian modified version of MUSIC (musculoskeletal intervention center) - Norrtalje questionnaire

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Alipour, Akbar ^a,c   Ghaffari, Mostafa ^a,c   Jensen, Irene ^a   Shariati, Batoul ^b   Vingard, Eva ^c  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTENT VALIDITY; FOCUS GROUP DISCUSSION METHOD; IRAN; MUSCULOSKELETAL INTERVENTION CENTER NORRTALJE QUESTIONNAIRE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SWEDEN; TECHNIQUE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; VALIDATION STUDY; WORKPLACE;

FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; IRAN; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WORKPLACE;

EID: 36248952202     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2474-8-88     Document Type: Article

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