'Rumours' and clinical trials: A retrospective examination of a paediatric malnutrition study in Zambia, southern Africa

BMC Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Kingori, Patricia ^a   Muchimba, Maureen ^b   Sikateyo, Bornwell ^a   Amadi, Beatrice ^c   Kelly, Paul ^d  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

^d QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CONSUMER; DECEPTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MALNUTRITION; MOTHER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; ZAMBIA;

ANXIETY; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; DECEPTION; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALNUTRITION; MOTHERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STEREOTYPING; ZAMBIA;

EID: 77957726819     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-556     Document Type: Article

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