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Research With African Americans: Lessons Learned About Recruiting African American Women

✍ Scribed by Angela D. Coker; Hsin-Hsin Huang; Susan Kashubeck-West

Publisher
American Counseling Association
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Weight
128 KB
Volume
37
Category
Article
ISSN
0883-8534

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✦ Synopsis

The authors briefly explore literature related to recruiting African American research participants, reflect on their experiences conducting body image research with a sample of African American college women in an earlier study (s. Kashubeck‐West et al., 2008), and discuss some methodological and cultural challenges that they encountered during data collection for the study.

Los autores exploran brevemente la literatura relacionada con el reclutamiento de individuos afroamericanos para participar en estudios de investigación, reflexionan sobre sus experiencias al llevar a cabo estudios sobre imagen corporal con una muestra de mujeres afroamericanas universitarias en un estudio anterior (S. Kashubeck‐West et al., 2008) y por último discuten algunos de los desafíos metodológicos y culturales con los que tuvieron que enfrentarse durante la recopilación de datos para el estudio.

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