Predictors of Limited Quantitative Methodology Use in Clinical Social Work Research: A Survey of Zimbabwean Social Work Students.
The study investigates factors contributing to the low level of skill in the adoption of quantitative approaches in clinical social work aligned students' thesis. We collected the data over a five-year period, spanning from 2019 to 2023. The data was collected from a sample of (n = 264) social work...
| Publicado en: | Clinical Social Work Journal Vol. 53; no. 4; pp. 439 - 453 |
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