Challenges of research recruitment in a university setting in England.
The recruitment is an integral part of most research projects in medical sciences involving human participants. In health promotion research, there is increasing work on the impact of environments. Settings represent environments such as schools where social, physical and psychological development u...
| Publicado en: | Health Promotion International Vol. 33; no. 5; pp. 878 - 887 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Oct2018
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