Use of personal digital assistants for data collection in a multi-site AIDS stigma study in rural south Nyanza, Kenya

African Health Sciences

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 464-473

  Onono, M A ^a   Carraher, N ^b   Cohen, R C ^c   Bukusi, E A ^a,d   Turan, J M ^c  

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b SAN FRANCISCO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Cost effectiveness; Developing countries; Feasibility; Multisite studies; Personal digital assistants

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KENYA; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANT; PREGNANCY; RURAL AREA; SCREENING; STIGMA; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIOLENCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER SECURITY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERVIEW; METHODOLOGY; MICROCOMPUTER; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; RURAL HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; COMPUTER SECURITY; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; KENYA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; RURAL POPULATION; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 84861326525     PISSN: 16806905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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