Telephone focus groups: An emerging method in public health research

Journal of Women's Health

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 945-951

  Cooper, Crystale Purvis ^a   Jorgensen, Cynthia M ^a   Merritt, Tracie L ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPIRICISM; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GROUP DYNAMICS; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLICATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SOCIOLOGY; TELEPHONE; UNITED STATES; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; GROUP PROCESS; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MASS SCREENING; NEOPLASM; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); DATA COLLECTION; FOCUS GROUPS; GROUP PROCESSES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; NEOPLASMS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TELEPHONE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1542290059     PISSN: 15409996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/154099903322643866     Document Type: Review

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