Email interviewing: Generating data with a vulnerable population

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1330-1339

  Cook, Catherine ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Email interviewing; Internet; Methodology; Nursing research; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; CONFIDENTIALITY; E-MAIL; ETHICS; FEMALE; FEMINISM; GENITAL HERPES; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERNET; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTION; PATIENT SELECTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ADULT; AGED; CANADA; CONFIDENTIALITY; DISCLOSURE; ELECTRONIC MAIL; ENGLAND; FEMALE; FEMINISM; HERPES GENITALIS; HUMANS; INTERNET; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; PATIENT SELECTION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESEARCHER-SUBJECT RELATIONS; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS; WOMEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860330547     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: 13652648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2011.05843.x     Document Type: Article

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