Preparing research instruments for use with different cultures

Intensive and Critical Care Nursing

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 64-68

  Endacott, Ruth ^a,b   Benbenishty, Julie ^c   Seha, Myriam ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d Spital Maennedorf   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

International; Multicultural; Reliability; Research instruments; Translation; Validity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; METHODOLOGY; NURSING RESEARCH; REPRODUCIBILITY;

CULTURAL DIVERSITY; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; NURSING RESEARCH; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 77649184110     PISSN: 09643397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.iccn.2009.12.005     Document Type: Article

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