Ethnographic methods for process evaluations of complex health behaviour interventions
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Ethnographic methods for process evaluations of complex health behaviour interventions.
This article outlines the contribution that ethnography could make to process evaluations for trials of complex health-behaviour interventions. Process evaluations are increasingly used to examine how health-behaviour interventions operate to produce outcomes and often employ qualitative methods to do this. Ethnography shares commonalities with the qualitative methods currently used in health-b...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Trials
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1745-6215
DOI: 10.1186/s13063-016-1340-2