A nurse interviews the school nurses in a community to determine their roles in schools because this data is not available. Which of the following processes is the nurse using?
a. Photovoice
b. Spatial data
c. Primary data
d. Secondary data
ANS: C
Primary data includes using informant interviews, focus groups, and participant observation in order to collect information about a community. Spatial data involves looking at the locations of places within the community. Photovoice, also called photo elicitation, is a community assess-ment technique in which community members take photos to represent a topic or theme about community health. Secondary sources include published data about the community, such as cen-sus data.
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