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Abstract
The "simulated client" method was first detailed in the family planning literature in 1985, but it has not been extensively covered since. As used by the authors to study client-provider interactions in family planning programs, this method essentially consists of sending women to a family planning service provider to request information, and interviewing them after the encounter. The women do not reveal to service providers they are participating in the study. This report describes the method; reviews some of the theoretical, ethical, and methodological issues related to it; and underlines its usefulness as a tool for examining quality-of-care issues in family planning programs.Entities:
Keywords: Africa; Africa South Of The Sahara; Age Factors; Asia; Behavior; Bias; Client-staff Relations; Clinic Visits; Data Collection; Delivery Of Health Care; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Economic Factors; English Speaking Africa; Error Sources; Ethics; Evaluation; Evaluation Methodology; Family Planning; Family Planning Program Evaluation; Family Planning Programs; French Speaking Africa; Ghana; Health; Interpersonal Relations; Interviews; Measurement; Methodological Studies; Nepal; Organization And Administration; Population; Population Characteristics; Program Activities; Programs; Research Methodology; Senegal; Service Statistics; Socioeconomic Factors; Socioeconomic Status; Southern Asia; Western Africa
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Year: 1993 PMID： 8351699
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Stud Fam Plann ISSN： 0039-3665