Conducting health research with vulnerable women: issues and strategies.
This paper has summarized a variety of methodological and ethical issues in conducting research with vulnerable women, and has also proposed strategies for dealing with these issues. Because vulnerable women are at increased risk for health problems, it is imperative that nurses and other health-care professionals make strenuous efforts to include vulnerable women in health research.
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Faculty of Nursing, Helen Glass Centre for Nursing, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. maureen_heaman@umanitoba.ca
D000328:Adult; D000375:Aging; D002170:Canada; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D003219:Confidentiality; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005260:Female; D018452:Homosexuality, Female; D006801:Humans; D007198:Indians, North American; D008913:Minority Groups; D018579:Patient Selection; D012036:Refugees; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012107:Research Design; D012307:Risk Factors; D012424:Rural Population; D012923:Social Class; D016387:Women's Health