Hearing children's voices: Methodological issues in conducting focus groups with children aged 7-11 years

Qualitative Research

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 5-20

  Morgan, Myfanwy ^a   Gibbs, Sara ^b   Maxwell, Krista ^b   Britten, Nicky ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

children; focus groups; qualitative methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993790897     PISSN: 14687941     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468794102002001636     Document Type: Article

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