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Cultural Sensitivity

 

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Accepting Feedback from the Community

Velma McBride Murry discusses the importance of community input at the beginning of the research process.

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Adapting Material with Foster Parent Focus Groups

Joe Price describes the process his group went through as they adapted an intervention for a group of diverse foster parents.

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Challenges and Rewards of HIV Research

Darrell P. Wheeler talks about how racism often does not get addressed in HIV research.

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Cultural Competence

Understanding patients' cultural backgrounds can help keep them in the study, states Jodi M. Gonzalez.

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Cultural Sensitivity in Sleep Research

Martica Hall talks about sensitive issues that arise when studying people in their homes.

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Designing Culturally Valid Research

Stephen M. Quintana incorporates the issue of cultural validity into all stages of research process, from conceptual design to analysis and interpretation.

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Engaging Minority Populations in Health Disparity Research

Getting African-Americans involved in research takes open dialogue, asserts Christopher L. Edwards.

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Parachuting Measures into Other Cultures

Kenneth H. Rubin explains one reason for non-replication of findings in cross-cultural research.

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Recruiting Sexual Minority Populations

Recruiting participants from the gay immigrant community is difficult, states Hirokazu Yoshikawa.

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Recruiting in Hispanic Communities

Jodi M. Gonzalez talks about recruiting Hispanic participants in Texas.

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Take What Exists in the Culture

An intervention based on traditional storytelling is described by Philip A. Fisher.

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The Challenge of Health Disparities

Improving access to services for African Americans requires commitment, states Charles F. Reynolds III.

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The Question of Researcher Ethnicity

Researchers, regardless of ethnicity, have an obligation to explain to minority participants why their work is legitimate, states Christopher L. Edwards.

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Using the Internet to Reach Hidden Populations

John Matthews and Elizabeth Cramer share their experiences using technology to reach hard-to-reach populations for research.

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Why Recruitment Fails

Christopher L. Edwards explains why some patients may fear research.

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Engaging Minority Populations in Health Disparity Research
Getting African-Americans involved in research takes open dialogue, asserts Christopher L. Edwards. Read More »


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Using the Internet to Reach Hidden Populations
John Matthews and Elizabeth Cramer share their experiences using technology to reach hard-to-reach populations for research. Read More »



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