Lifelines: A life history methodology

Nursing Research

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 207-210

  Gramling, Lou F ^a,c   Carr, Rebecca L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AIKEN   (United States)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Life change events; Nursing methodology research; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN RELATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; LIFE HISTORY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; NURSING; PUBLICATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; LIFE EVENT; LITERATURE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING THEORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; AUDIOVISUAL AIDS; AUTOBIOGRAPHY; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; NARRATION; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING THEORY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; WOMEN;

EID: 3042769279     PISSN: 00296562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006199-200405000-00008     Document Type: Review

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