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Journal of nursing measurement (J Nurs Meas)

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1 Development and psychometric evaluation of the Resilience Scale. 1993 4.27
2 Minimizing sample size when using exploratory factor analysis for measurement. 2002 2.18
3 Development of a shortened state anxiety scale from the Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) for patients receiving mechanical ventilatory support. 2003 2.11
4 Reliability and validity testing of the revised 12-item Short-Form Health Survey in older adults. 2001 1.87
5 A review of the Resilience Scale. 2009 1.55
6 Measurement of staff empowerment within health service organizations. 1999 1.47
7 Item response theory in affective instrument development: an illustration. 2001 1.46
8 Preserving qualitative meaning in instrument development. 1993 1.41
9 Ensuring content validity: an illustration of the process. 2001 1.30
10 Development and psychometric evaluation of the Self-efficacy for Appropriate Medication Use Scale (SEAMS) in low-literacy patients with chronic disease. 2007 1.23
11 Reliability and validity of the self-efficacy for exercise and outcome expectations for exercise scales with minority older adults. 2004 1.22
12 Measurement of activity in older adults: reliability and validity of the Step Activity Monitor. 2001 1.20
13 Metric equivalence assessment in cross-cultural research: using an example of the Center for Epidemiological Studies--Depression Scale. 2004 1.18
14 Measurement of sleep in critically ill patients. 2001 1.15
15 Assessing the cultural appropriateness of the Finding Meaning Through Caregiving Scale for Korean caregivers. 2004 1.15
16 Using health care records as sources of data for research. 1995 1.14
17 Reliability and validity of the Jefferson Scale of Empathy in undergraduate nursing students. 2009 1.13
18 Development and testing of the Resourcefulness Scale for Older Adults. 2006 1.12
19 Reliability and validity of the functional performance inventory in patients with moderate to severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. 1998 1.12
20 Sensation and Distress of Pain Scales: reliability, validity, and sensitivity. 2001 1.11
21 Development of a Cultural Competence Assessment instrument. 2004 1.09
22 Development of a scale to measure information needs in cancer care. 1998 1.08
23 Measurement properties of the centers for epidemiological studies depression scale (CES-D) in a sample of African American and non-Hispanic White pregnant women. 2009 1.06
24 Reliability, validity, and health issues arising from questionnaires used to measure Psychosocial and Organizational Work Factors (POWFs) among hospital nurses: a critical review. 2008 1.06
25 Comparison of pain measures in surgical patients. 1999 1.05
26 Field testing, refinement, and psychometric evaluation of a new measure of nursing home care quality. 2006 1.03
27 An empirical evaluation of an expanded Nursing Stress Scale. 2001 1.03
28 An introduction to Rasch measurement for scale development and person assessment. 2002 1.03
29 Maternal Postpartum Quality of Life Questionnaire. 2006 1.01
30 Psychometric properties of the WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire for the Norwegian general population. 2004 1.01
31 Instrument translation and evaluation of equivalence and psychometric properties: the Chinese Sense of Coherence Scale. 2002 1.00
32 Patient satisfaction with nursing care: concept clarification. 1995 1.00
33 Organizational culture in hospitals: issues in measurement. 1997 0.98
34 Establishing competency in the use of North American Nursing Diagnosis Association, Nursing Outcomes Classification, and Nursing Interventions Classification terminology. 2003 0.98
35 Support for the reliability and validity of a six-item state anxiety scale derived from the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. 2009 0.97
36 The Index of Readiness: development and psychometric analysis. 1994 0.96
37 Psychometric properties of the Readiness for Hospital Discharge Scale. 2006 0.95
38 Psychometric properties of Spanish versions of the FACES II and Dyadic Adjustment Scale. 2006 0.95
39 The NDNQI-Adapted Index of work satisfaction. 2004 0.95
40 Measuring parental barriers to childhood immunizations: the development and validation of the searching for hardships and obstacles to shots (SHOTS) instrument. 2010 0.94
41 Development and psychometric evaluation of the Demands of Immigration Scale. 1998 0.94
42 Assessing nurses' hand hygiene practices by direct observation or self-report. 2005 0.93
43 When is internal consistency reliability assessment inappropriate? 1999 0.93
44 Additional construct validity of the Schwartz Cancer Fatigue Scale. 1999 0.92
45 Development and Psychometric evaluation of an instrument to measure staff nurses' perception of uncertainty in the hospital environment. 1996 0.92
46 Development of the Huntington disease family concerns and strategies survey from focus group data. 2010 0.92
47 Validity and reliability of the family inventory of needs (FIN): measuring the care needs of families of advanced cancer patients. 1995 0.92
48 Using factor analysis for validity assessment: practical considerations. 2003 0.91
49 Issues regarding aggregation of data in nursing systems research. 1994 0.91
50 Reliability of aggregated organizational data: an evaluation of five empirical indices. 1994 0.91
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