Survey return rates for multiple-authored versus single-authored covering letters

Psychological Reports

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 209-212

  Price, James H ^a   Khubchandani, Jagdish ^a   Bryant, Michele ^a   Rickard, Megan ^a   Hendershot, Candace ^a   Thompson, Amy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NURSE ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCHOOL HEALTH NURSING; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; WRITING;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; AUTHORSHIP; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CORRESPONDENCE AS TOPIC; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; NURSE'S ROLE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHOOL NURSING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85047682795     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/01.17.PR0.107.4.209-212     Document Type: Article

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