Ethnographic strategies in the tracking and retention of street-recruited community-based samples of substance using hidden populations in longitudinal studies

Substance Use and Misuse

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 700-716

  Cepeda, Alice ^a   Valdez, Avelardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Contextual factors; Cross sectional research designs; Health risk behaviors; Hidden populations; Longitudinal panel designs; Noninjecting heroin; Retention; Tracking strategies

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; PATIENT DROPOUTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK-TAKING; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TEXAS; URBAN POPULATION; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949427253     PISSN: 10826084     EISSN: 15322491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10826081003591282     Document Type: Article

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