Leisure Activities After a Stroke: An Ethnographic Approach
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Leisure activities after a stroke: an ethnographic approach.
Ethnography is a qualitative research design that has relevance for clinical research in occupational therapy. The ethnographic approach is illustrated in the present paper through a description of how it could be used to investigate the effectiveness of an occupational therapy leisure intervention with stroke survivors. This paper contrasts ethnography with a randomized clinical trial design a...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Occupational Therapy
سال: 1991
ISSN: 0272-9490
DOI: 10.5014/ajot.45.5.429