Delusions and qualitative confusions: A dialogic collaborative exploration

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1008-1018

  Patterson, Sue E ^a   Hart, Jozella ^b   Weaver, Tim D ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epistemology; Ethics; General; Interviews; Mental health and illness; Psychiatry; Qualitative methods; Reflexivity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFUSION; COOPERATION; DELUSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESEARCH ETHICS;

ADULT; CONFUSION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DELUSIONS; ETHICS, RESEARCH; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 77953745478     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732310363805     Document Type: Article

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