Recruiting African American smokers into intervention research: Relationships between recruitment strategies and participant characteristics

Research in Nursing and Health

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 86-95

  Webb, Monica S ^a,b   Seigers, Danielle ^a   Wood, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b 430 Huntington Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Acculturation; African Americans; Readiness to quit; Recruitment; Smoking

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT SELECTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SMOKING CESSATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ACCULTURATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MARKETING OF HEALTH SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT SELECTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SMOKING CESSATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 59649104492     PISSN: 01606891     EISSN: 1098240X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nur.20299     Document Type: Article

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