Recruitment of hard-to-reach population subgroups via adaptations of the snowball sampling strategy

Nursing and Health Sciences

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 369-374

  Sadler, Georgia Robins ^a,b   Lee, Hau Chen ^b   Lim, Rod Seung Hwan ^b   Fullerton, Judith ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Project Concern International   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity; Hard to reach populations; Non probability sampling; Recruitment; Research strategies; Snowball sampling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NURSING RESEARCH; PATIENT SELECTION; RESEARCH SUBJECT;

HUMANS; NURSING RESEARCH; PATIENT SELECTION; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESEARCH SUBJECTS; SAMPLING STUDIES;

EID: 77955782187     PISSN: 14410745     EISSN: 14422018     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-2018.2010.00541.x     Document Type: Article

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