Focus groups with African American adolescents: Enhancing recruitment and retention in intervention studies

Journal of Pediatric Nursing

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 88-96

  Jones, Francine Clark ^a   Broome, Marion E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHRONIC DISEASE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INTERVENTION STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ALABAMA; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MALE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SELECTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0035320013     PISSN: 08825963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jpdn.2001.23151     Document Type: Article

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