Ethno-Epidemiological Research Challenges: Networks Of Long-Haul Truckers In The Inner City

Keywords

ethno-epidemiological research; hard-to-reach populations; social networks; truckers; urban populations

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.

Publication Date

3-1-2016

Publication Title

Ethnography

Volume

17

Issue

1

Number of Pages

111-134

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1177/1466138115597703

Socpus ID

84959155603 (Scopus)

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https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84959155603

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