Facilitating the recruitment of minority ethnic people into research: Qualitative case study of South Asians and asthma

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Sheikh, Aziz ^a   Halani, Laila ^a   Bhopal, Raj ^a   Netuveli, Gopalakrishnan ^b   Partridge, Martyn R ^c   Car, Josip ^b   Griffiths, Chris ^d   Levy, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIAN; ASTHMA; CLINICAL RESEARCH; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; BANGLADESH; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; CULTURAL DEPRIVATION; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; INDIA; LEADERSHIP; MINORITY GROUP; PAKISTAN; PATIENT SELECTION; PERSONNEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ASTHMA; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BANGLADESH; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; CULTURAL DEPRIVATION; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INDIA; LEADERSHIP; MINORITY GROUPS; PAKISTAN; PATIENT SELECTION; PREJUDICE; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70449100855     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000148     Document Type: Article

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