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Conducting Drug Abuse Research with Minority Populations - Advances and Issues (Hardcover, 112th)
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Conducting Drug Abuse Research with Minority Populations - Advances and Issues (Hardcover, 112th)
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Be a better researcher when studying drug abuse among minorities!
Conducting Drug Abuse Research with Minority Populations: Advances
and Issues brings you the voices of drug abuse researchers who
discuss the most important concerns about conducting research in
drug-taking minority populations. In this strategy-based book,
you'll find yourself beneficially involved in a discussion of many
of the central methodological advances facing researchers today,
specifically in the target area of minority communities and their
drug-using societies.
Conducting Drug Abuse Research with Minority Populations presents
crucial recommendations and strategies that will lead you toward
unprecedented effectiveness and efficiency when researching this
subsection of the world's drug users. In addition, find new ways to
involve community members in the research process, and you'll come
to more fully understand the impact of cultural values, attitudes,
and norms in the drug-taking patterns of minority persons.
With this book, you will learn more about: the importance of
advisory boards, gatekeepers, and indigenous workers in this type
of research the crucial role of incentives in recruiting and
retaining minority persons in drug abuse studies focus groups as
tools to minimize selection bias of minority subjects how cultural
values may affect research strategies how research teams can
facilitate the collection of data within minority communities
Researchers, college educators, and substance abuse practitioners
will find that Conducting Drug Abuse Research with Minority
Populations improves their efforts to produce more viable data in a
much shorter time span.
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