Methodological issues in AIDS-related research Book Section


Authors: Siegel, K.; Bauman, L. J.
Article/Chapter Title: Methodological issues in AIDS-related research
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)
Keywords: identify & discuss methodological issues in aids research primarily in which subjects are homosexual or bisexual people
Book Title: The social dimensions of AIDS: Method and theory
ISBN: 0-275-92110-7
Publisher: Praeger Publishers  
Publication Place: New York, NY
Date Published: 1986-01-01
Start Page: 15
End Page: 39
Language: English
ACCESSION: 1986-98098-001
PROVIDER: Ovid Technologies
PROVIDER: psycinfo
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Notes: Feldman, Douglas A [Ed ; Johnson, Thomas M [Ed -- viii, 274 -- Source: APA PsycInfo