Overview of Qualitative Methods in Research With Diverse Populations

From the *Center for Aging in Diverse Communities and Medical Effectiveness Research Center, the †Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, and the ‡Institute for Health & Aging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California. Supported by grant no. P30-AG15272 under the Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research program of the National Institute on Aging, the National Institute of Nursing Research, and the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institutes of Health, and grant no. P01 HS10856 under the Excellence Centers to Eliminate Ethnic/Racial Disparities (EXCEED) program of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Reprints: Anna M. Nápoles-Springer, PhD, University of California San Francisco, 3333 California Street, Suite 335, San Francisco, CA 94118-1944. E-mail: [email protected].