Applying the revised Chinese job content questionnaire to assess psychosocial work conditions among Taiwan's hospital workers

BMC Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Chien, Tsair Wei ^a,b   Lai, Wen Pin ^a   Wang, Hsien Yi ^a   Hsu, Sen Yen ^a   Castillo, Roberto Vasquez ^c   Guo, How Ran ^d   Chen, Shih Chung ^e   Su, Shih Bin ^a,e  

^a CHI MEI MEDICAL CENTER   (Taiwan)

^b CHIA NAN UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

^c Local Integral Health Assistance System (SILAIS)   (Nicaragua)

^d NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e SOUTHERN TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; TAIWAN;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TAIWAN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79958845246     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-478     Document Type: Article

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