An invitation to use craigslist ads to recruit respondents from stigmatized groups for qualitative interviews

Qualitative Research

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 371-383

  Worthen, Meredith G F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

craigslist; Internet recruitment tools; qualitative interviews; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901292680     PISSN: 14687941     EISSN: 17413109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468794113481791     Document Type: Article

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