Work Functioning Among Firefighters: A Comparison Between Self-Reported Limitations and Functional Task Performance.
Purpose Performance-based and disease indicators have been widely studied in firefighters; self-reported work role limitations have not. The aim of this study was to describe the distributions and correlations of a generic self-reported Work Limitations Questionnaire (WLQ-26) and firefighting-specif...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation Vol. 29; no. 1; pp. 194 - 205 |
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Springer Nature
Mar2019
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