Ethno-epidemiological research challenges: Networks of long-haul truckers in the inner city

UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
Kelley Erin Carpenter Massengale (Creator)
Amanda Elizabeth Tanner, Associate Professor (Creator)
Institution
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/

Abstract: Long-haul truck drivers and members of their social networks in urban locales constitute a hard-to-reach population at risk for acquiring and disseminating STIs/HIV. This paper focuses on the unique logistical, methodological, and ethical challenges faced by population health scientists while studying long-haul truck drivers and members of their sexual networks in inner-city neighborhoods of a major US metropolitan center and the innovative strategies developed to overcome the challenges. Formative research and focus groups with several trucker-centered populations (N?=?28) led to in-depth interviews and serologies with 60 truck drivers and 24 sexworkers. Various difficulties encountered by the research team are discussed, followed by strategies devised to overcome them.

Additional Information

Publication
Ethnography, 17(1), 111–134
Language: English
Date: 2016
Keywords
hard-to-reach populations, truckers, social networks, ethno-epidemiological research, urban populations

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