Psychometric properties of the nurses work functioning questionnaire (NWFQ)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Gärtner, Fania R ^a   Nieuwenhuijsen, Karen ^a   van Dijk, Frank J H ^a   Sluiter, Judith K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT VALIDITY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; DIVERGENT VALIDITY; ENDICOTT WORK PRODUCTIVITY SCALE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOB PERFORMANCE; MALE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MENTAL DISEASE; NURSE; NURSES WORK FUNCTIONING QUESTIONNAIRE; PARAMEDICAL PROFESSION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF REPORT; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VALIDITY; WORK DISABILITY;

HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; NURSES; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 80555129527     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026565     Document Type: Article

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