Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers as Research Participants: Lessons from a Randomized Controlled Trial.
Social work research in the UK has significant challenges in building research capacity due to a lack of funding, austerity policies, and the quality of research training within social work degrees. As a result, the workforce has limited understanding of the value and relevance of research to practi...
| Publicado en: | Social Work Research Vol. 49; no. 1; pp. 9 - 21 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Mar2025
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