Abstract: |
identify and discuss some of the principal methodological issues social science researchers of AIDS [acquired immune deficiency syndrome] will confront / try to outline alternative solutions to these problems primarily concerned with research in which the subjects are homosexual (gay) or bisexual people with AIDS defining the populations: AIDS, prodromal syndromes, and homosexuals/gays / recruitment, cooperation, and refusals response validity: issues and techniques / respondents' accessibility to information / respondents' abilities to answer / respondents' motivations / socially acceptable response biases: threatening and sensitive information / identifiability, anonymity, and confidentiality / effects of different methods of data collection / interview rapport (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved) |