Co-interviewing across gender and culture: Expanding qualitative research methods in Melanesia

BMC Public Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Redman MacLaren, Michelle L ^a   Api, Unia K ^b   Darius, Matupit ^b   Tommbe, Rachael ^b   Mafile'o, Tracie A ^b   MacLaren, David J ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Pacific Adventist University   (Papua New Guinea)

Author keywords

Co interviewing; Culture; Gender; Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Power; Public health research; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

CASE REPORT; CULTURAL SAFETY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INTERVIEW; LEADERSHIP; LEARNING; MALE; MELANESIA; NONHUMAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SCIENTIST; UNIVERSITY; AUSTRALIA; COOPERATION; CULTURAL FACTOR; HUMAN RELATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERSONNEL; RESEARCH SUBJECT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

AUSTRALIA; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANESIA; MIDDLE AGED; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; RESEARCH SUBJECTS; RESEARCHER-SUBJECT RELATIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84941097847     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-922     Document Type: Article

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