title: An introduction to key event mapping: A primer for nurse researchers.
abstract: To fully understand the events leading to a diagnosis, retrospective recall can help nurse researchers reconstruct important health behavior-related events. However, retrospective recall can be a challenge. Key event mapping offers nurse researchers a method beyond retrospective chart review to elicit date data to explore the pre-diagnosis time frame of an illness. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the key event mapping method to nurse researchers in search of a method of eliciting date data from participants when designing research studies that include a retrospective recall component.
authors.affiliation: Indiana University School of Nursing, 1111 Middle Drive, NU 418, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA. Electronic address: lcharris@iu.edu.
authors.forename: Lisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Carter-Harris
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D011939:Mental Recall; D015399:Nursing Research; D012189:Retrospective Studies
keywords: Calendar land marking technique; Key event mapping; Method; Retrospective recall