Nurse Education Today
Volume 29, Issue 8 , Pages 867-872 , November 2009

Surveying nursing students on their sources of stress: A validation study

  • Chris Gibbons

      Affiliations

    • School of Nursing, Queen’s University Belfast, 10 Malone Road, Belfast BT9 5BN, United Kingdom
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +44 028 90 976599.
    • ,
  • Martin Dempster

      Affiliations

    • School of Psychology, Queen’s University Belfast, 18-31 Malone Road, Belfast BT9 5BN, United Kingdom
    • ,
  • Marianne Moutray

      Affiliations

    • School of Nursing, Queen’s University Belfast, 10 Malone Road, Belfast BT9 5BN, United Kingdom

,Accepted 30 April 2009.

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PII: S0260-6917(09)00086-0

doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2009.04.008

Nurse Education Today
Volume 29, Issue 8 , Pages 867-872 , November 2009

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