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