Validity and reliability of Arabic MOS social support survey

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Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Dafaalla, Mohamed ^a   Farah, Abdulraheem ^a   Bashir, Sheima ^a   Khalil, Ammar ^a   Abdulhamid, Rabab ^a   Mokhtar, Mousab ^a   Mahadi, Mohamed ^a   Omer, Zulfa ^a   Suliman, Asgad ^a   Elkhalifa, Mohammed ^a   Abdelgadir, Hanin ^a   Kheir, Abdelmoneim E M ^b   Abdalrahman, Ihab ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

Author keywords

Arabic MOS survey; Psychometric properties; Reliability; Social support; Validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84981276460     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21931801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40064-016-2960-4     Document Type: Article

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