Journal of Pediatric Nursing
Volume 16, Issue 2 , Pages 88-96 , April 2001

Focus groups with African American adolescents: Enhancing recruitment and retention in intervention studies

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 Supported by a minority supplement grant to Dr. Clark Jones from National Institute of Nursing Research (1 RO1 NR04080-01S1), Marion E. Broome (PI).

☆☆ Address reprint requests to Marion E. Broome, RN, PhD, FAAN, Professor and Associate Dean for Research, School of Nursing, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294. E-mail: broomem@son.uab.edu

PII: S0882-5963(01)94507-5

doi: 10.1053/jpdn.2001.23151

Journal of Pediatric Nursing
Volume 16, Issue 2 , Pages 88-96 , April 2001