The challenge of recruiting control groups. An experiment of different recruitment models in the control group of a clinical psychological postal survey

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 743-750

  O'Connor, Maja ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Age effects; Control group recruitment; Data quality; Psychological surveys; Response rates

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954620876     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: 15737845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11135-010-9423-8     Document Type: Article

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