Communications between volunteers and health researchers during recruitment and informed consent: Qualitative content analysis of email interactions

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Townsend, Anne ^a   Amarsi, Zubin ^a   Backman, Catherine L ^a,b   Cox, Susan M ^c   Li, Linda C ^a,b  

^a ARTHRITIS RESEARCH CENTRE OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Emails; Help seeking; self management; Informed consent; Motivations to volunteer; Qualitative research; Recruitment; Rheumatoid arthritis; Volunteer researcher interactions

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; E-MAIL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SELECTION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BRITISH COLUMBIA; COMMUNICATION; ELECTRONIC MAIL; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SELECTION;

EID: 81855173650     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.1752     Document Type: Article

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