Methodological considerations in children's focus groups

Nursing Research

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 184-187

  Kennedy, Christine ^a   Kools, Susan ^a   Krueger, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Data collection; Developmental focus groups; Methodology; Pediatric qualitative approaches

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH;

EID: 0035349875     PISSN: 00296562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006199-200105000-00010     Document Type: Article

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